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Giancarlo

#1,438 in 2025Boys' name

Combination of Giovanni and Carlo

Giancarlo has been given to 8,652 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #1,438 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 381 recorded.

Babies named Giancarlo, 2025

1 in 26,500

Giancarlo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giancarlo: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Giovanni and Carlo

Italian and coinages

What Giancarlo means

Giancarlo is a compound of Giovanni and Carlo.

Origin, language, and formation

Giancarlo is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian and coinages.

Giancarlo comes through Italian Giancarlo.

Giancarlo is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovanni, Carlo and Jean-Charles.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giancarlo is pronounced /d͡ʒanˈkar.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,652 boys were recorded with the name Giancarlo between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 381 in 2008; its best national rank was #641 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,210 in 2020 to #1,438 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #847 in 2015 to #1,438 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 Giancarlo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,500
125 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,438
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,384 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giancarlo 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,384 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giancarlo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giancarlos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giancarlo was born before 2007 — so the typical Giancarlo is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,652
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (2,873).

Is Giancarlo 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
−31
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−228
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−591
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.8%
Peak was 2008 (381)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#641
2008

Spellings of Giancarlo

Giancarlo is the most-used spelling, taking 72.5% of the 11,926 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Giancarlo is used

Across 2016–2025, Giancarlo was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 7,760 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

126 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,846
  2. 2Florida1 in 4,545
  3. 3New York1 in 5,263
  4. 4California1 in 5,882
  5. 5Arizona1 in 6,250
  6. 6Texas1 in 6,250
  7. 7Illinois1 in 6,667
  8. 8Nevada1 in 20,000

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.

Giancarlo around the world

Where Giancarlo 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
    1996–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1983–1993
    #378
    in 1993
  • France
    1943–2013
    #5,378
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Giancarlo

People whose public names include Giancarlo, 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.

Giancarlo in other languages

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

Gian CarloGian-CarloJuan CarlosJean-CharlesGiovanni Carlo

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

Giancarlo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,438
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 228
Best rank ever
#641
2008
Peak year
2008
381 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,652
Count in 2025
125

Names similar to Giancarlo

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

GianlucaGianmarcoGiankarloGianniGianfrancoGiacomoGiancarlosGianncarloJeancarloGiannisGianluccaGianlucasGianGianluigiCarloMarloGianpaoloJoncarloJancarloGiannyJohncarloArloGianlukaGiavonni

Names with a curve like Giancarlo

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

SeamusEanJovaniIsaiZechariahJairoKoleReaganUlisesAdrienKamronJabari

Sibling names for Giancarlo

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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