Jovanni
Jovanni was given to 191 boys in 2025, #1,118 among boys’ names; 7,027 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,920 Americans named Jovanni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovanni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jovanni mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jovanni is “a male given name from Spanish.”
From Spanish Jovanni, from Italian Giovanni.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jovanni?
#1,118 among boys’ names, 2025
Jovanni fell from #1,054 in 2015 to #1,118 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.11 per 1,000.
316 babies in 2012, the peak
Jovanni peaked in 2012, when 316 boys were given it, #734 among boys’ names. The 191 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 191 | #1,118 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 193 | #1,111 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 260 | #894 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 269 | #882 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 246 | #923 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 224 | #968 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 221 | #971 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 195 | #1,043 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 207 | #989 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 188 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,054 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 224 | #944 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 249 | #860 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 316 | #734 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 257 | #839 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 260 | #825 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 297 | #769 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 228 | #910 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 248 | #851 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 267 | #779 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 247 | #788 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 195 | #891 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 182 | #914 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 157 | #996 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 152 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,109 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,174 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,151 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,336 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 107 | #1,114 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,220 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,345 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,551 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,259 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,200 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,887 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,319 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,307 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,276 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovanni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,027 Americans recorded as Jovanni, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 191 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jovanni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovanni, and how old are they?
6,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,027 Americans ever recorded as Jovanni. The median Jovanni alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,690 people named Jovanni (197 women and girls, 4,493 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 786 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,880 |
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 Jovanni born?
The states with the most babies named Jovanni are Texas, California and Illinois, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #765 | 1.4× |
| California | 29 | #837 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #771 | 1.7× |
| Arizona | 10 | #655 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,408 | 1.5× |
| Colorado | 8 | #650 | 1.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,492 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #977 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,164 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #743 | 0.9× |
Where Jovanni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovanni is most over-represented in California: since 1978 it was given 1.7 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 Jovanni 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 25,396 babies since 1880, Jovanni is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 191 of their 475 babies (40%), the most given that year.
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 Jovanni
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 Jovanni and names like it
- Compare Jovanni and JovaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJovanni peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovanni since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jovanni: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jovanni.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jovanni alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.