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Giannina

#5,018 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Giovanna

Giannina has been given to 531 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #5,018 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Giannina, 2025

1 in 128,000

Giannina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giannina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Giovanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giannina means

Giannina is a diminutive of Giovanna.

Origin, language, and formation

Giannina is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovanna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giannina is pronounced /d͡ʒanˈni.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 531 girls were recorded with the name Giannina between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,498 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,067 in 2020 to #5,018 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,210 in 2015 to #5,018 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 Giannina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,018
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giannina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giannina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gianninas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giannina was born before 2008 — so the typical Giannina is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
531
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Giannina 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
−1,418
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+49
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,192
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.8%
Peak was 2022 (45)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
57.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,498
2022

Spellings of Giannina

Giannina is not the most common spelling — Gianna is, with 95.9% against Giannina's 0.46%.

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 Giannina is used

Across 1910–2025, Giannina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 496,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Giannina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Giannina around the world

Where Giannina 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.

  • France
    1926–1963
    #1,770
    in 1963
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1954–1971
    #471
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Giannina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,018
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 49
Best rank ever
#3,498
2022
Peak year
2022
45 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
531
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Giannina

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

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Sibling names for Giannina

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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