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Giano

#5,460 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ianus

Giano has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #5,460 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Giano, 2025

1 in 195,000

Giano over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giano: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ianus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giano means

Giano is a form of Ianus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ianus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 137 boys were recorded with the name Giano between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,460 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,178 in 2020 to #5,460 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.

How common is Giano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,460
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giano 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gianos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giano was born before 2020 — so the typical Giano is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
137
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Giano 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
+279
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,718
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (17)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,460
2025

Spellings of Giano

Giano is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 52.6% against Giano's 0.03%.

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.

Giano around the world

Where Giano 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
    2012–2025
    #5,038
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #536
    in 1966

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

Giano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,460
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,718
Best rank ever
#5,460
2025
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Giano

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

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Sibling names for Giano

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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