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Gianluca

#1,156 in 2025Boys' name

Combination of Giovanni and Luca

Gianluca has been given to 3,915 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,156 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 207 recorded.

Babies named Gianluca, 2025

1 in 18,300

Gianluca over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gianluca: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Giovanni and Luca

Italian and coinages

What Gianluca means

Gianluca is a compound of Giovanni and Luca.

Origin, language, and formation

Gianluca is used in English, Italian and Spanish. Its origins include Italian and coinages.

Gianluca comes through Italian Gianluca.

Gianluca is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovanni, Luca and Jean-Luc.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Gianluca is pronounced /d͡ʒanˈlu.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,915 boys were recorded with the name Gianluca between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 207 in 2017; its best national rank was #988 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,242 in 2020 to #1,156 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,604 in 2015 to #1,156 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 Gianluca?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,300
181 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,440
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,156
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gianluca 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gianluca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gianlucas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gianluca was born before 2014 — so the typical Gianluca is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,915
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (1,523).

Is Gianluca 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
+97
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+448
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.4%
Peak was 2017 (207)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#988
2017

Where Gianluca is used

Across 2016–2025, Gianluca was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 2,222 boys, against 1 in 7,991 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

145 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 2,222
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,564
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,941
  4. 4New York1 in 3,571
  5. 5Illinois1 in 5,556
  6. 6California1 in 10,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 11,111
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 16,667

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.

Gianluca around the world

Where Gianluca 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2016
    #592
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1969–2025
    #4,813
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #831
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2012
    #514
    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 Gianluca

People whose public names include Gianluca, 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.

Gianluca in other languages

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

John LukeJuan LucasGiovanni Luca

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

Gianluca by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,156
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 86
Best rank ever
#988
2017
Peak year
2017
207 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,915
Count in 2025
181

Names similar to Gianluca

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

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Names with a curve like Gianluca

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

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Sibling names for Gianluca

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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