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Giovani

#1,312 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh is gracious, through Giovanni

Giovani has been given to 7,621 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,312 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 519 recorded.

Babies named Giovani, 2025

1 in 22,400

Giovani over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giovani: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious, through Giovanni

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giovani means

Giovani belongs to the name family reached through Giovani → Giovanni. Its meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Giovani is used in English.

Giovani comes through Italian Giovanni.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovanni.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,616 boys were recorded with the name Giovani between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 519 in 2011; its best national rank was #503 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,158 in 2020 to #1,312 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #793 in 2015 to #1,312 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Giovani between 2000 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2000; its best national rank was #15,878 in 2000.

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 Giovani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,400
148 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,312
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,527 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giovani 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,527 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giovani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giovanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giovani was born before 2010 — so the typical Giovani is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,616
People you could plausibly meet
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2010s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (3,094).

Is Giovani 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
−58
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−154
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−519
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.5%
Peak was 2011 (519)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#503
2011

Spellings of Giovani

Giovani is not the most common spelling — Giovanni is, with 68.8% against Giovani's 5.9%.

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 Giovani is used

Across 2016–2025, Giovani was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 9,686 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 5,556
  3. 3Texas1 in 6,250
  4. 4Illinois1 in 7,143
  5. 5Florida1 in 7,692
  6. 6Colorado1 in 10,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 14,286
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 14,286

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.

Giovani around the world

Where Giovani 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
    2002–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1907–2025
    #3,312
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

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

Notable people named Giovani

People whose public names include Giovani, 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.

Giovani in other languages

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

GeovaniGiovanni

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

Giovani by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,312
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 154
Best rank ever
#503
2011
Peak year
2011
519 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,616
Count in 2025
148

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,878
2000
Peak year
2000
5 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Giovani

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

GiovannyGiorgioGiovanyJovaniGiomaniGionniGiovonniJelaniKymaniArmaniGeovaniDamaniGiovanniKalaniYovaniKimaniKhamaniJiovaniAmaniSekaniGiovanHasaniGiovannieAjani

Names with a curve like Giovani

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

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Sibling names for Giovani

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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