The name Giovanni is of Italian origin, and is an alternate form of Johannes.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Giovanni has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Giovanni
Use of the Name Giovanni for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
25,680
25,670
23,891
16,223
9,641
4,184
1,997
The table below indicates the number of times the name Giovanni has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Giovanni first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1907, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Giovanni
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1907
899
10
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
960
62
1964
1965
979
57
1966
925
62
1967
957
57
1968
847
74
1969
799
94
1970
836
93
1971
839
93
1972
719
123
1973
678
138
1974
687
142
1975
674
149
1976
650
158
1977
724
138
1978
670
155
1979
634
184
1980
614
203
1981
549
237
1982
554
243
1983
540
242
1984
513
275
1985
501
302
1986
469
339
1987
459
374
1988
401
493
1989
362
624
1990
328
753
1991
322
782
1992
300
891
1993
289
961
1994
287
949
1995
253
1,113
1996
238
1,245
1997
239
1,278
1998
225
1,418
1999
221
1,528
2000
202
1,751
2001
196
1,872
2002
202
1,834
2003
177
2,187
2004
189
1,997
Totals:
25,680
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Giovanni as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Giovanni appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 42 times during the last 125 years.