# Jovanni (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jovanni/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,027 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,835 / 192 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 38, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Spanish Jovanni, from Italian Giovanni.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 14 | 6,629 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,226 |
| 1999 | 10 | 9,111 |
| 2001 | 9 | 10,503 |
| 2002 | 6 | 14,431 |
| 2005 | 6 | 15,380 |
| 2006 | 6 | 16,049 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,611 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,172 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,850 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17,049 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,076 |
| 2019 | 9 | 10,871 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,279 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,765 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 257 | 839 |
| 2012 | 316 | 734 |
| 2013 | 249 | 860 |
| 2014 | 224 | 944 |
| 2015 | 189 | 1,054 |
| 2016 | 188 | 1,053 |
| 2017 | 207 | 989 |
| 2018 | 195 | 1,043 |
| 2019 | 221 | 971 |
| 2020 | 224 | 968 |
| 2021 | 246 | 923 |
| 2022 | 269 | 882 |
| 2023 | 260 | 894 |
| 2024 | 193 | 1,111 |
| 2025 | 191 | 1,118 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## 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.