girls:
952 births since 1971
#4764 (17th percentile)
boys:
83.4k births since 1907
#347 (92nd percentile)
overall:
84.4k births since 1907
#767 (90th percentile)
The name Giovanni is the #767 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84,355 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 90.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #347 (92.4% percentile) for all time with 83,403 births since 1907. For girls, it ranks #4,764 (16.6% percentile) for all time with 952 births since 1971.
Giovanni first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Giovanni is available in 107 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 53 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Giovanni has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Giovanni reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 87.3% percentile (ranked #118) with 1,590 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 1,672 births per million (ranked 86.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Giovanni is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #120 (86.9% percentile) with 1,590 births per million.
For girls, Giovanni reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #826) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Giovanni ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 15.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Giovanni".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Giovanni. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Giovanni is pronounced as joh-VAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-VAH-nee, at 23.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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