Giannina
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ɣjannina/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Giannina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Greek Ιωάννινα (Ioánnina), possibly after Άγιος Ιωάννης (Ágios Ioánnis, “Saint John”).
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.9K
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
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 Giannina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)Ultimately from Greek Ιωάννινα (Ioánnina), possibly after Άγιος Ιωάννης (Ágios Ioánnis, “Saint John”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Giannina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Giannina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #895 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Giannina | 53 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Giannina | 49 |
| CL Chile | #934 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Giannina | 56 |
| PY Paraguay | #540 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Giannina | 19 |
| US United States | — | 783 | 1 in 425K | 779 | Giannina | 133 |
| UY Uruguay | #540 | 282 | 1 in 12K | 282 | Giannina | 25 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Giannina 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.
In Italian, Ioannina (the capital and largest city of the regional unit of Ioannina and region of Epirus, Greece)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Giannina Chiantonib. 1881ITItalian actress (1881-1972)
- Giannina Braschib. 1953USPuerto Rican writer
- Giannina Faciob. 1955CRCosta Rican actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Giannina mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Greek Ιωάννινα (Ioánnina), possibly after Άγιος Ιωάννης (Ágios Ioánnis, “Saint John”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Giannina?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Nina is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Giovanna and Gianna.
- How do you pronounce Giannina?
- In Spanish /ɣjannina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Giannina a male or female name?
- Giannina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Uruguay (INE Uruguay).
- Which countries have the most people named Giannina?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Giannina in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giannina. After it come Italy, Chile, Paraguay and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Giannina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 783 people named Giannina in 2020, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
- How common is Giannina compared with other names?
- In Peru, Giannina is the 895th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gianninaThe 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, “Giannina” — the 895th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.