girls:
192 births since 1983
#5524 (3rd percentile)
boys:
6.4k births since 1978
#1468 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1978
#3308 (57th percentile)
The name Jovanni is the #3,308 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,638 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 57.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,468 (68.0% percentile) for all time with 6,446 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,524 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 192 births since 1983.
Jovanni first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Jovanni is available in 44 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (44 years for boys and 25 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 Jovanni has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jovanni reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 33.0% percentile (ranked #603) with 155 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 155 births per million (ranked 33.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jovanni ranks #660 for boys (27.6% percentile) with 141 births per million, which is 90.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jovanni reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #854) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jovanni".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jovanni", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 62 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Giovanni" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Giovanni..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jovanni. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Jovanni is pronounced as joh-VAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-VA-nee, at 13.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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