Gianna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gianna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Originally a hypocoristic of Giovanna.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5.2K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
64,221 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Originally a hypocoristic of Giovanna.
Sources 2
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gianna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 64,221 | 1 in 5.2K | 64K | Gianna | 272 |
| IT Italy | #579 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 17 | Gianna | 129 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,895 | 1 in 5.8K | 2.9K | — | 21 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1K | Gianna | 50 |
| PY Paraguay | #844 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Gianna | 7 |
64,221 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gianna Maria Canaleb. 1927ITItalian actress (1927-2009)
- Gianna Giachettib. 1935ITItalian actress
- Gianna Rolandib. 1952USAmerican soprano singer (1952–2021)
- Gianna Nanninib. 1954ITItalian singer and songwriter (born 1954)
- Gianna Michaelsb. 1983USAmerican pornographic actress & model
- Gianna Lynnb. 1984PHFilipino-American pornographic actress
- Gianna Simoneb. 1989USAmerican actress
- Gianna Nicoleb. 1995USAmerican pornographic actress
- Gianna Diorb. 1997USAmerican pornographic actress
- Gigi Perezb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 64K | #775 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5.6K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.9K | #491 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1K | #140 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 187 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 118 | #775 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 103 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 103 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 17 | #656 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gianna mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a hypocoristic of Giovanna. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Gianna?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Nina, Gia and Giannina are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Giovanna.
- Is Gianna a male or female name?
- Gianna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Gianna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 64,221 people named Gianna in 2020, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Gianna compared with other names?
- In Italy, Gianna is the 579th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Gianna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Gianna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gianna.
What do you want to know about Gianna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gianna” — the 579th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.