Giovani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variante setentrional de Giovanni
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒiovɐni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giovani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 18K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 20K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
30,487 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variante setentrional de Giovanni
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giovani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #583 | 30,487 | 1 in 6.9K | 32K | Giovani | 159 |
| US United States | — | 6,805 | 1 in 49K | 6.7K | Giovani | 198 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 4 | Giovani | 66 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Giovani | 28 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Giovani | 48 |
| GT Guatemala | #356 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Giovani | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | #864 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Giovani | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 228 | 1 in 15K | 228 | — | 22 |
30,487 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates 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)
Giovani 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, Variante di Giovanni
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Giovani Cherinib. 1960BRBrazilian politician
- Giovani Edgar Aranab. 1974BORoman Catholic bishop
- Giovani dos Santosb. 1989MXMexican association football player
- Giovani Luiz Neitzkeb. 1989BRBrazilian association football player
- Giovani Bernardb. 1991USAmerican football player, running back
- Giovani Rosab. 1992BRBrazilian footballer
- Giovani Casillasb. 1994MXMexican footballer
- Giovani Lo Celsob. 1996ARArgentine association football player
- Giovani Dicky Oktavanb. 1997IDbadminton player
- Giovani Henriqueb. 2004BRBrazilian association football player
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)
Attested in 58 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 32K | #1,055 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30K | #813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.7K | #3,188 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 758 | #813 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 427 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 228 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 207 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 148 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #3,188 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 5 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Giovani mean, and where does it come from?
- variante setentrional de Giovanni Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Giovani?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒiovɐni/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Giovani a male or female name?
- Giovani is a male 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 Giovani have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Giovani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giovani.
- Where is Giovani most common?
- Giovani is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Giovani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30,487 people named Giovani in 2022, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Giovani compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Giovani is the 583rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Giovani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giovaniThe 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, “Giovani” — the 583rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.