girl's name

Giovanna

  • Origin Italian
  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 8
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 17,255

the United States

#880

2025 births

Giovanna is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 304 babies in the United States, ranking #880. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Giovanna is a name of Italian origin.
  • Peaked in 2005, when 408 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 10,906 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1904.

Giovanna over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1900s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,719
'00 '10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Giovanna by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1900s 15
1910s 172
1920s 163
1930s 120
1940s 108
1950s 220
1960s 460
1970s 749
1980s 1,037
1990s 2,226
2000s 3,719
2010s 3,287
2020s (to 2025) 1,859

How popular is Giovanna?

In 2025, Giovanna was given to 304 babies in the United States, ranking #880 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Giovanna is used

Scotland #635 5 in 2024
United States #880 304 in 2025
Ireland #888 4 in 2024
France #1,266 30 in 2025
England & Wales #1,453 22 in 2025
Canada #1,701 14 in 2024

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Giovanna

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Giovanna also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Giovanna over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Giovanna in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Atayal
Yana
Belarusian
Yana
Brazilian Portuguese
Giovana
Bulgarian
Ivana
Czech
Ivana
Finnish
Jonna
Russian
Yana
Seediq
Yana
Serbian
Ivana
Venetian
Zanetta
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Geovanna

Sibling names for Giovanna

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Giovanna — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Giovanna

How popular is the name Giovanna?

In 2025, Giovanna was given to 304 babies in the United States, ranking #880 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Giovanna a girl's or a boy's name?

Giovanna is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Giovanna most popular?

Giovanna peaked in 2005, when 408 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Giovanna a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Giovanna currently ranks #635 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.