# Giovanna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/giovanna/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,135 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 14,135 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 605, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 346 | 785 |
| 2012 | 304 | 878 |
| 2013 | 262 | 962 |
| 2014 | 313 | 874 |
| 2015 | 344 | 817 |
| 2016 | 364 | 780 |
| 2017 | 335 | 815 |
| 2018 | 324 | 837 |
| 2019 | 326 | 834 |
| 2020 | 368 | 744 |
| 2021 | 328 | 842 |
| 2022 | 288 | 943 |
| 2023 | 286 | 929 |
| 2024 | 285 | 930 |
| 2025 | 304 | 878 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,438 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,893 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,484 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,628 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 32 | 1,086 |
| 2017 | 36 | 1,002 |
| 2018 | 34 | 1,035 |
| 2019 | 30 | 1,119 |
| 2020 | 24 | 1,313 |
| 2021 | 51 | 734 |
| 2022 | 38 | 910 |
| 2023 | 46 | 774 |
| 2024 | 30 | 1,128 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,407 |

## People named Giovanna

- Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress
- Giovanna of Savoy, Bulgarian and Italian Royal
- Giovanna Trillini, fencer
- Giovanna Scoccimarro, German judoka (1997-)
- Giovanna Gagliardo, Film director, Screenwriter
- Giovanna d'Aragona, 16th-century Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts
- Erika Giovanna Klien, American artist (1900-1957)
- Giovanna Arbunic, Chilean chess player
- Giovanna Felicita Feltria della Rovere, Duchess of Sora and Arce
- Giovanna Chaves, Brazilian actress, singer and model
- Giovanna Pedroso, Brazilian diver
- Giovanna Fletcher, English author, actress, blogger, vlogger, and presenter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.