Giovanna

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Italian feminine of Jean/John, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'

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

Giovanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 475(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.5K
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.4K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
278 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 475 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GiovannaLatin(measured from records)
ג'ובאנהHebrew(measured from records)
ΓιοβάνναGreek(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 feminine of Jean/John, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Giovanna 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 Giovanna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#978≈130,000 est.≈1 in 475170Giovanna95
BR Brazil#29387,0381 in 2.4K87KGiovanna199
PE Peru#276≈21,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Giovanna84
US United States—15,3831 in 22K15KGiovanna278
CL Chile#484≈4,200 est.≈1 in 4.4K3Giovanna82
PY Paraguay#451≈1,800 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Giovanna20

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Giovanna 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, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written 'Giovanna, Giovännä, Gióvanna

  • Italian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Gìovanna, Gìòvànnà, Giòvanna, Gïovanna, Ģiovanna

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Belgium, United States

    Also written Gīovanna, Gìovanna

  • Croatian given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Peru, Italy, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Джованна, Джаванна, Гиованна, Dzhovanna, Gìovanna

49 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)

Giovanna is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, a female given name, masculine equivalent Giovanni, equivalent to English Jane

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

  • In Italian, forma feminina de Giovanni; matronímico

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Italian feminine of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Dio è misericordioso

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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)

1400160018002000Vannozza dei Cattanei, b. 1442Princess Isabella of Parma, b. 1741Elsa Schiaparelli, b. 1890Giovanna of Savoy, b. 1907Suso Cecchi D'Amico, b. 1914Édith Piaf, b. 1915Giovanna Galletti, b. 1916Giovanna Ralli, b. 1935Giovanna Mezzogiorno, b. 1974Anahí, b. 1983

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 81 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Giovanna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202287K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—87K#357
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—37K#946
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,869
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20208.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—393#357
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025304—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024170#144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020100#1,869
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20213—

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 are other forms of the name Giovanna?
In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Nina, Gia and Gianna are recorded short or pet forms.
What does the name Giovanna mean, and where does it come from?
Italian feminine of Jean/John, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
How common is the name Giovanna?
In Brazil, the national register counted 87,038 people named Giovanna in 2022, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
How common is Giovanna compared with other names?
In Italy, Giovanna is the 978th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
Is Giovanna a male or female name?
Giovanna 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.
In which country does Giovanna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Giovanna in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giovanna.

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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, “Giovanna” — the 978th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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