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Gian

#956 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh is gracious, through Giovanni

Gian has been given to 5,033 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #956 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 328 recorded.

Babies named Gian, 2025

1 in 13,600

Gian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gian: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious, through Giovanni

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gian means

Gian belongs to the name family reached through Gian → Giovanni. Its meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gian is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovan, Giovanni and John.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Gian is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,033 boys were recorded with the name Gian between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 328 in 2023; its best national rank was #777 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,202 in 2020 to #956 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,220 in 2015 to #956 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gian?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,600
244 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,000
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#956
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,419 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,419 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gian was born before 2012 — so the typical Gian is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,033
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (1,478).

Is Gian rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−59
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+246
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+264
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.62×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.4%
Peak was 2023 (328)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#777
2023

Spellings of Gian

Gian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 21.3% against Gian's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gian is used

Across 2016–2025, Gian was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 1,351 boys, against 1 in 7,386 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

174 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 1,351
  2. 2Florida1 in 3,030
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 3,846
  4. 4Texas1 in 5,000
  5. 5New York1 in 5,882
  6. 6Arizona1 in 6,250
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 6,667
  8. 8California1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Gian around the world

Where Gian ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–1986
    #317
    in 1986
  • Ireland
    2006–2006
    #596
    in 2006
  • France
    1931–2025
    #4,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Gian

People whose public names include Gian, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gian in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gian. Linked forms have their own page here.

GiaIanIonIvoJanJonKinEvanGeonHansIoanIvanIwanJaanJackJeanJianJoanJoaoJohnJuanKianSeanYann

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gian by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#956
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 246
Best rank ever
#777
2023
Peak year
2023
328 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,033
Count in 2025
244

Names similar to Gian

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LianRianCianEianKianArianGianniZianAvianDavianKylianElianGiacomoGianlucaJavianFavianKilianJianVivianAdianZavianDemianTavianCaspian

Names with a curve like Gian

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gian, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OsmanZevAvrahamTzviRowdyMassimoShimonYitzchokAviMeirEverDovid

Sibling names for Gian

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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