Giove
surname · Latin script
Meaning: l.from Gidve (‘Jupiter’), the name of the chief Roman deity, perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually swore per Giove ‘by Jove’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒʊv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giove is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 49K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 138K
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)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Sicilianggidve(measured from records)
- Giovein(measured from records)
l.from Gidve (‘Jupiter’), the name of the chief Roman deity, perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually swore per Giove ‘by Jove’. 2. from Sicilian ggidve, idvi ‘Thursday’, applied as a personal name for someone bom or baptized on that day of the week. 3. habitational name from Giove in Temi province, Umbria. 4. possibly from a variant of the personal name Giobbe (see Job).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giove 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 4 | Giove | 28 |
| US United States | 312 | 1 in 1.1M | 406 | Giove | 154 |
| PE Peru | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 373K | — | Giove | 7 |
| FR France | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 812K | 15 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Giove | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Giove | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | — | 4 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Giove is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Jupiter, Jove
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, de Jovis/Júpiter; nome próprio ou topônimo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Giuseppe Maria Gioveb. 1773ITItalian Catholic bishop (1773-1848)
- Rosa Gioveb. 1952PEPeruvian doctor and researcher
- Missy Gioveb. 1972USAmerican racing cyclist
- Nicoletta GioveITmigrations scholar
- Daniel Vecco GiovePEPeruvian entomologist
- Silvio GioveITresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 406 | #54,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 312 | #63,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 282 | #65,668 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,932 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Giove come from?
- l.from Gidve (‘Jupiter’), the name of the chief Roman deity, perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually swore per Giove ‘by Jove’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Giove?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒʊv/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Giove mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from Gidve (‘Jupiter’), the name of the chief Roman deity, perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually swore per Giove ‘by Jove’.
- What are other forms of the name Giove?
- In the etymology graph, Jove, Iovita and Iovis are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Giove have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Giove in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giove.
- How common is the name Giove?
- In the United States, the national register counted 312 people named Giove in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gioveThe 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, “Giove”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.