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Jiovani

Gender
Boy
Say it
joh-VAH-nee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#4,706 for boys

Jiovani is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 4,706th for boys in the US (21 babies).

What does Jiovani mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Jiovanni; phonetic spelling of Giovanni, the Italian form of John

“God is gracious”

A phonetic spelling of Giovanni, the Italian form of John.

Meaning borrowed from Jiovanni.

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

Jiovani is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jiovani in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,706th among boys
Babies in 2025
21 about 1 in 81,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising up 31% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 21 boys in the US were named Jiovani, making it the 4,706th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,694th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the boys named Jiovani in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 150 boys in the US were given Jiovani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,174, up from #4,706 for this spelling alone.

1988Busiest: 37 in 20092025
Jiovani in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202521#4,706
202435#3,333
202324#4,339
202220#4,846
202121#4,624
202020#4,694
201917#5,336
201824#4,222
201728#3,777
201620#4,775
201527#3,881
201425#4,011
201317#5,167
201229#3,622
201124#4,108
201031#3,452
200937#3,104
200826#3,918
200726#3,891
200628#3,600
200521#4,193
200419#4,416
200312#5,870
200221#3,904
200115#4,884
200018#4,198
199918#3,981
199810#5,834
199712#4,954
19969#5,975
199510#5,495
19945#8,794
19930–
19920–
19915#8,228
19908#5,816
19890–
19887#5,745

Nicknames for Jiovani

Names like Jiovani

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

Other spellings of Jiovani

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Jiovani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jiovani, updated 20 October 2026.