Giani
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Giani has been given to 587 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.
Babies named Giani, 2024
1 in 478,000
Giani over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Giani over time
In 2025, Giani went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Giani?
Giani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Giani sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gianis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Giani was born before 2010 — so the typical Giani is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 37.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 333
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (126).
Is Giani 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2012 (22)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.4% average annual change
Spellings of Giani
Giani is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 53.2% against Giani's 0.07%.
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 Giani is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Giani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Giani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Giani is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Giani was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,319,822 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in —
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Giani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Giani around the world
Where Giani 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.
- France1950–2025#1,104in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Giani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Giani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Giani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.