Gianni

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gianni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as from the personal name Gianni, a reduced form of Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 622(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 4.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 29K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gianni itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
276 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 622 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GianniLatin(measured from records)
ДжанниCyrillic(measured from records)
ג'אניHebrew(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Italian form of Jean, from Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gianni is read(measured from records)

Gianni is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Italian46%

    from the personal name Gianni, a reduced form of Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    a diminutive of the male given name Giovanni, equivalent to English Johnny

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French17%

    Italian form of Jean, from Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Italian form of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • English14%

    Italian form of John; 'God is gracious'.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Spanish9.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gianni in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gianni 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.

Where Gianni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#114≈100,000 est.≈1 in 62230Gianni225
US United States—11,4061 in 29K9.7KGianni276
NL Netherlands—9,891as Janny1 in 1.7K9.8KGianni40
FR France—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 16K9.2KGianni5
BE Belgium—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 4.2K15Gianni80
CH Switzerland#708≈2,000 est.≈1 in 4.2K114Gianni80

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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gianni is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Giannì, Gianni', Gianní, Giannï, Gìannì

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gianní, Giannì, Gianni̲

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Giannì

  • Greek given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Γιαννη, Γιάννη, Γιαννή, Giánnī

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gianni is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Contracted form of GIOVANNI. Feminine form: Gianna.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Gianni Franciolini, b. 1910Gianni Puccini, b. 1914Gianni Musy, b. 1931Gianni Garko, b. 1935Gianni Russo, b. 1943Gianni Amelio, b. 1945Gianni Nunnari, b. 1959Gianni Vernetti, b. 1960Gianni Infantino, b. 1970Sergiño Dest, b. 2000

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 92 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Gianni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.7K#2,272
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20249.2K#168
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#2,272
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—816#2,362
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025571—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025164—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202430#386

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 are other forms of the name Gianni?
In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages; Nino is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Giovanni.
Where does the name Gianni come from?
Italian form of Jean, from Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
Is Gianni a male or female name?
Gianni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Gianni mean?
In Italian, from the personal name Gianni, a reduced form of Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John.
How common is the name Gianni?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,406 people named Gianni in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
How common is Gianni compared with other names?
In Italy, Gianni is the 114th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
In which country does Gianni have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Gianni in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gianni.

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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, “Gianni” — the 114th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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