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Jovanni

#1,118 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh is gracious, through Giovanni

Jovanni has been given to 7,027 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,118 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 316 recorded.

Babies named Jovanni, 2025

1 in 17,400

Jovanni over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jovanni: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious, through Giovanni

Spanish and Italian

What Jovanni means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Jovanni is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish and Italian.

Jovanni comes through Spanish Jovanni and Italian Giovanni.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jovanni and Giovanni.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,835 boys were recorded with the name Jovanni between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 316 in 2012; its best national rank was #734 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #968 in 2020 to #1,118 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,054 in 2015 to #1,118 in 2025.

In the United States, 192 girls were recorded with the name Jovanni between 1983 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,624 in 1997.

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 Jovanni?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,400
191 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,940
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,118
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,032 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jovanni 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,032 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jovanni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jovannis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jovanni was born before 2011 — so the typical Jovanni is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,835
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2010s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (2,306).

Is Jovanni 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
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−150
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−64
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.01×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.4%
Peak was 2012 (316)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#734
2012

Spellings of Jovanni

Jovanni is not the most common spelling — Giovanni is, with 63.6% against Jovanni's 4.9%.

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 Jovanni is used

Across 2016–2025, Jovanni was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 7,265 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 4,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 4,348
  3. 3Florida1 in 4,762
  4. 4California1 in 5,263
  5. 5Illinois1 in 5,263
  6. 6Colorado1 in 6,667
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 7,692
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 7,692

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.

Jovanni around the world

Where Jovanni 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
    2009–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2018
    #4,841
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jovanni by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,118
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 150
Best rank ever
#734
2012
Peak year
2012
316 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,835
Count in 2025
191

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,624
1997
Peak year
1997
14 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
192
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jovanni

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

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Names with a curve like Jovanni

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

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Sibling names for Jovanni

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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