Giovani
Giovani was given to 148 boys in 2025, #1,312 among boys’ names; 7,621 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,510 Americans named Giovani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giovani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giovani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Giovani is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “John” (Giovanni).
From Italian Giovanni (“John”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giovani?
#1,312 among boys’ names, 2025
Giovani fell from #793 in 2015 to #1,312 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.09 per 1,000.
519 babies in 2011, the peak
Giovani peaked in 2011, when 519 boys were given it, #503 among boys’ names. The 148 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 148 | #1,312 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,254 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,460 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 147 | #1,297 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 159 | #1,217 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,158 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 172 | #1,133 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 185 | #1,075 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 196 | #1,027 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 250 | #876 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 294 | #793 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 304 | #771 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 311 | #744 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 373 | #642 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 519 | #503 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 490 | #528 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 454 | #581 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 405 | #614 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 345 | #690 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 259 | #795 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 210 | #874 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 143 | #1,106 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 175 | #939 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 159 | #990 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 152 | #1,000 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 147 | #1,002 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,151 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,087 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,077 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,071 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,205 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,265 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,528 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 67 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 65 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,000 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,353 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 28 | #2,068 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,188 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,948 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,652 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,573 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,660 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,990 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Giovani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Giovani has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Giovani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giovani, and how old are they?
7,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,621 Americans ever recorded as Giovani. The median Giovani alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 6,805 people named Giovani (90 women and girls, 6,715 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,678 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 60 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 721 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Giovani born?
The states with the most babies named Giovani are Texas, California and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #813 | 1.3× |
| California | 18 | #1,130 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,289 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 8 | #731 | 0.3× |
| New York | 6 | #1,635 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 6 | #877 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,362 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,343 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 5 | #894 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,307 | 0.3× |
Where Giovani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Giovani is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Giovani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,804 babies since 1880, Giovani is the second most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 148 of their 3,266 babies (4.5%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Giovani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Giovani and names like it
- Compare Giovani and GiovanniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGiovani peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Giovani since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Giovani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Giovani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.