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Giovanna

Gender
Girl
Say it
jo-VAN-a
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#1,280 for girls
US rank, 2025
#878 for girls

Giovanna is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 1,280th for girls in the UK (26 babies) and 878th for girls in the US (304 babies).

What does Giovanna mean?

Hebrew: Italian feminine of Giovanni (John)

“God is gracious”

Italian feminine form of John, from the Hebrew Yochanan.

Is Giovanna a girl's or a boy's name?

Giovanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the UK and 304 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Giovanna in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,280th among girls
Babies in 2025
26 about 1 in 11,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 26 girls in the UK were named Giovanna, making it the 1,280th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,348th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 57 girls.

2025 had fewer girls named Giovanna than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Giovanna in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,407th in England and Wales and 632nd in Scotland.

1996Busiest: 57 in 20212025
Giovanna in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202526#1,280
202435#1,046
202349#788
202240#936
202157#720
202025#1,348
201930#1,189
201838#1,011
201738#1,027
201634#1,096
201516#1,900
201418#1,722
201321#1,559
201215#2,005
201121#1,518
201013#2,103
200917#1,691
200819#1,548
20079#2,543
200613#1,860
200516#1,521
200417#1,399
200311#1,831
200215#1,399
200111#1,723
20004#3,399
19998#2,089
199810#1,815
199714#1,387
19966#2,469

How popular is Giovanna in the US?

Rank in 2025
878th among girls
Babies in 2025
304 about 1 in 5,300 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 14% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 304 girls in the US were named Giovanna, making it the 878th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 744th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 408 girls. It first appears in the records in 1904.

Half of all the girls named Giovanna in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 313 girls in the US were given Giovanna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #822, up from #878 for this spelling alone.

1904Busiest: 408 in 20052025
Giovanna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025304#878
2024285#929
2023286#928
2022288#940
2021328#841
2020368#744
2019326#832
2018324#835
2017335#813
2016364#778
2015344#815
2014313#873
2013262#961
2012304#876
2011346#784
2010369#751
2009354#799
2008377#778
2007392#743
2006390#722
2005408#681
2004401#686
2003356#719
2002364#690
2001396#637
2000281#808
1999250#860
1998284#757
1997262#794
1996199#963
1995213#886
1994202#930
1993269#763
1992195#977
1991193#971
1990159#1,097
1989146#1,129
1988148#1,065
1987141#1,081
1986105#1,282
198595#1,364
198484#1,388
198382#1,423
198266#1,703
198189#1,382
198081#1,482
197980#1,482
197874#1,511
197771#1,526
1976103#1,139
197573#1,430
197477#1,351
197387#1,220
197267#1,448
197156#1,640
197061#1,570
196970#1,370
196844#1,776
196747#1,659
196666#1,335
196554#1,516
196444#1,747
196332#2,093
196249#1,606
196129#2,196
196025#2,368
195930#2,053
195831#1,984
195732#1,927
195630#1,967
195526#2,107
195421#2,377
195311#3,479
195211#3,371
195119#2,313
19509#3,660
19498#3,891
194814#2,700
194712#3,060
19469#3,429
19459#3,131
194416#2,198
194313#2,557
19427#3,736
194113#2,396
19407#3,501
19398#3,143
19386#3,845
193714#2,196
19368#3,101
193515#2,094
193414#2,186
193317#1,906
193210#2,829
193116#2,023
193012#2,551
192919#1,891
192811#2,766
192721#1,884
192612#2,707
192516#2,282
192420#1,991
192310#3,124
192220#1,957
192117#2,195
192017#2,172
191923#1,698
191828#1,497
191722#1,652
191617#1,949
191518#1,799
191416#1,665
191320#1,274
191212#1,620
191111#1,450
19105#2,398
19090–
19085#2,101
19075#2,060
19060–
19050–
19045#1,876

Nicknames for Giovanna

Names like Giovanna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Gabriella, Athena, Fatima, Eliana, Ava, Aurora, Isabella, Mia, Gianna, Elena, Ariella, Sienna

Other spellings of Giovanna

Giovana

Names related to Giovanna

Giavonna, Geovanna, Giavonni, Geovana

More Hebrew names

Noah, Elijah, James, Jack, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie, Levi

Every Hebrew name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Giovanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/giovanna, updated 20 October 2026.