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Giovanna

#878 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Iohanna

Giovanna has been given to 14,135 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #878 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 408 recorded.

Babies named Giovanna, 2025

1 in 10,900

Giovanna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giovanna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Iohanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giovanna means

Giovanna is a form of Iohanna.

Origin, language, and formation

Giovanna is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iohanna and Jane.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giovanna is pronounced /d͡ʒoˈvan.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,135 girls were recorded with the name Giovanna between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 408 in 2005; its best national rank was #638 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #744 in 2020 to #878 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #817 in 2015 to #878 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 Giovanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,900
304 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,290
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#878
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,560 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giovanna 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,560 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giovanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giovannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giovanna was born before 2004 — so the typical Giovanna is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,557
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2000s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (3,719).

Is Giovanna 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
+52
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−134
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−61
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.5%
Peak was 2005 (408)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#638
2001

Spellings of Giovanna

Giovanna is not the most common spelling — Gianna is, with 73.4% against Giovanna's 9.4%.

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 Giovanna is used

Across 2016–2025, Giovanna was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,408 girls, against 1 in 4,368 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

371 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,408
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 1,429
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 1,449
  4. 4New York1 in 2,273
  5. 5Florida1 in 2,703
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 3,030
  7. 7Arizona1 in 4,167
  8. 8Illinois1 in 4,348

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.

Geographically, Giovanna is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 95% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Giovanna around the world

Where Giovanna 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
    #1,407
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1907–2025
    #1,189
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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 Giovanna

People whose public names include Giovanna, 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.

Giovanna in other languages

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

JanaJaneJeanYanaIvanaJonnaJuanaIvankaIvannaJeanneGiovanaJohanneZanettaGeovannaSiânGiannetta

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

Giovanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#878
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 134
Best rank ever
#638
2001
Peak year
2005
408 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,135
Count in 2025
304

Names similar to Giovanna

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

GionnaMariannaLiliannaRosannaEliannaRoxannaElliannaGiavannaRoseannaTatiannaLilyannaBryannaViviannaSusannaAviannaSuzannaMadonnaAryannaLadonnaAbriannaAdriannaJuliannaMackennaGiovanni

Names with a curve like Giovanna

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

AlenaIlianaMelinaHanaReynaBelenRaynaChayaRyannDaniaRainaKallie

Sibling names for Giovanna

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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