Giovanni is a distinctive choice, ranked #497 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Giovanni in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#497
US Rank #123
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About the Name Giovanni
Giovanni is steadily gaining in popularity, up 35 places over the past five years. Its best recorded rank was #511 in 1998, and it currently sits at #576. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Giovanni is fairly common in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Giovanni in their class.
In the US it ranks even higher at #122, where it enjoys a particularly strong following.
⭐ Famous People Named Giovanni
Giovanni Molari — Giovanni Molari is an Italian engineer and academic, whose research has focused on mechanised agriculture and livestock machinery.
Giovanni Lo Storto — Giovanni Lo Storto was the General Manager of Luiss Guido Carli University from 2013 to 2024.
Giovanni Kean — Giovanni Kean Dossè is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Giovanni
Unlikely. With around 77 UK babies named Giovanni per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Giovanni in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Giovanni is at its highest recorded position — #497 in 2025, with 77 births. In 2020 it ranked #611.
Giovanni is more popular in the US (#122) than in the UK (#576). Names with strong rankings in both countries tend to have broad cross-cultural appeal, working well for international families or those with ties to both nations.
Notable people named Giovanni include: Giovanni Molari, Giovanni Kean and Giovanni Simeone. Short summaries for each appear below.
Giovanni appears in the US top 500 at #122 in 2024 — moderately popular in America, though less so than in the UK.
77
UK babies named Giovanni (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
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In a school of 600
↑ 114 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Giovanni
Almost certainly the only Giovanni in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
US Popularity (2020–2025)
Rank · SSA official data
✨ Similar names to Giovanni
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Giovanni Pablo Simeone Baldini, also known as Gio Simeone or "El Cholito", is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Torino, on loan from Napoli.
Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; full title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally 'The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, also known as Lo Scheggia, or "the Splinter" was an Italian Renaissance painter in Florence who was born in San Giovanni Valdarno and was the younger brother of the famous Masaccio.
Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista piraˈneːzi; -eːsi]; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione).