Giovanni

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: from the personal name Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John. In spite of the long-standing popularity of the personal name in Italy, the surname is rare; the present-day frequency is less than 20

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

Giovanni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 61st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 185(inferred from the name graph)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 1K
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.6K

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 Giovanni 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)

≈340,000 people, est.

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
368 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GiovanniLatin(measured from records)
ג'ובניHebrew(measured from records)
ΓιοβαννηGreek(measured from records)
ჯოვანიGeorgian(measured from records)
조반니Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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/John, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How Giovanni is read(measured from records)

Giovanni is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • Italian32%

    from the personal name Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John. In spite of the long-standing popularity of the personal name in Italy, the surname is rare; the present-day frequency is less than 20.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English John

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

    Dal ebr. Yehoḥanan, 'Yahweh/il Signore è benevolo, fa grazia'; nome di numerosi santi.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    Dal ebraico Yehoḥanan, «Dio ha fatto grazia».

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • Spanish30%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Giovanni in Spanish.

  • English14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Giovanni in English.

  • French5.9%

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

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Italian form of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Portuguese5.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Giovanni in Portuguese.

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)

Giovanni 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 Giovanni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#581≈340,000 est.≈1 in 1851.9KGiovanni128
US United States—66,4801 in 5K66KGiovanni368
BR Brazil#98830,487as Giovani1 in 6.9K32KGiovanni181
PH Philippines—≈15,000 est.≈1 in 7.3K—Giovanni61
FR France—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 5.4K12K—4
CR Costa Rica#665,0821 in 1K5.1KGiovanni68
CH Switzerland#970≈3,900 est.≈1 in 2.2K12Giovanni24
GT Guatemala#61≈3,500 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Giovanni54
PY Paraguay—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Giovanni28
SV El Salvador#196≈2,500 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Giovanni45

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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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)

Giovanni is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Giòvanni, Giovannì, Gìovannì, Gìovanni, 'Giovanni

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Italy, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gìòvànnì, Giovannì, Giövânnî, Gìovannì, Giòvanni

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gíovanni

  • Croatian given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Джованни, Джованні, Dzhovanni, Đovani, Giovanny

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Italy, Philippines, United States

    Also written Giovänni

75 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Giovanni Boccaccio, b. 1313Giovanni Domenico Cassini, b. 1625Clemens XI, b. 1649Clemens XIV, b. 1705Humbert I, b. 1844Giovanni Gronchi, b. 1887Giuseppe Saragat, b. 1898Giovanni Leone, b. 1908Giovanni Angelo Becciu, b. 1948Gianni Infantino, b. 1970
  • Giovanni Boccacciob. 1313ITItalian author and poet (1313–1375)
  • Giovanni Domenico Cassinib. 1625ITItalian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
  • Clemens XIb. 1649ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
  • Clemens XIVb. 1705ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
  • Humbert Ib. 1844ITnot in their usual nameking of Italy (1844-1900)
  • Giovanni Gronchib. 1887IT3rd President of Italy (1887-1978)
  • Giuseppe Saragatb. 1898ITnot in their usual name5th President of Italy (1898-1988)
  • Giovanni Leoneb. 1908IT6th President of Italy (1908-2001)
  • Giovanni Angelo Becciub. 1948ITRoman Catholic archbishop and diplomat (born 1948)
  • Gianni Infantinob. 1970CHnot in their usual nameSwiss-Italian-Lebanese football administrator

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 110 sources across 55 countries.

Official registers attesting Giovanni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202066K#759
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202213K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—13K#1,426
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202412K#282
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—8.3K#2,419
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5.1K#145
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.9K—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20241.9K#21
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020734#759
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020525—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—243#1,426

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Where does the name Giovanni come from?
Italian form of Jean/John, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
What are other forms of the name Giovanni?
In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages; Nino, Gian and Gianni are recorded short or pet forms.
What does the name Giovanni mean?
In Italian, from the personal name Giovanni, Italian equivalent of John. In spite of the long-standing popularity of the personal name in Italy, the surname is rare; the present-day frequency is less than 20.
Is Giovanni a male or female name?
Giovanni 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.
How common is the name Giovanni?
In the United States, the national register counted 66,480 people named Giovanni in 2020, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Giovanni compared with other names?
In Italy, Giovanni is the 581st most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
In which country does Giovanni have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 337 thousand people named Giovanni in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giovanni.

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About this data

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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, “Giovanni” — the 581st most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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