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Giovana

#10,373 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Giovanna

Giovana has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #10,373 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Giovana, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giovana: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Giovanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giovana means

Giovana is a variant of Giovanna.

Origin, language, and formation

Giovana is used in Portuguese.

Giovana comes through Italian Giovanna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovanna, Joana and Ivana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Giovana is pronounced /ʒi.oˈvɐ̃.nɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 881 girls were recorded with the name Giovana between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,896 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,118 in 2020 to #10,373 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,619 in 2015 to #10,373 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 Giovana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,373
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giovana 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giovana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giovanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giovana was born before 2003 — so the typical Giovana is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
881
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Choose a decade

2000s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (322).

Is Giovana 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
−2,648
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,255
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,754
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.6%
Peak was 2001 (46)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,896
1993

Spellings of Giovana

Giovana is not the most common spelling — Giovanna is, with 28.8% against Giovana's 1.8%.

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 Giovana is used

Across 1910–2025, Giovana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 153,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Giovana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Giovana around the world

Where Giovana 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
    2023–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1923–2025
    #5,451
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1962–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Giovana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,373
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,255
Best rank ever
#2,896
1993
Peak year
2001
46 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
881
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Giovana

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

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Sibling names for Giovana

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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