Giovanni

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled ג'ובני in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Giovanni is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name323K records spelled Giovanni19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Netherlands, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Gìòvànnì, Giòvanni, Giövânnî, Giovannì, 'Giovanni

• a separate given name16K records spelled Giovanni2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Gíovanni

• Croatian given name13K records spelled Giovanni34 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Russia

  Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Джованни, Джованні, Đovani, Dzhovanni, Giovanny

• Indonesian given name6.1K records spelled Giovanni2 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.

Other recorded senses●

Giovanni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• 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.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Italian, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English John

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Dal ebraico Yehoḥanan, «Dio ha fatto grazia».

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In French, Italian form of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 109 years between 1907–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Giovanni?

We estimate roughly 121 thousand people bear Giovanni (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Giovanni have the most bearers?

Giovanni is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled giovanni.

Where is Giovanni most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giovanni is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Giovanni compared with other names?

In Argentina, Giovanni is the 549th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Giovanni mean?

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