Giovanni

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Origin and Meaning

Italian form of Johannes [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Gian
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Italian
Gianni
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Italian
Giovanni
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Italian
Giovannino
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Italian

See also Gino, Vanni

For female forms see Giovanna

Further Information

Giovanni is a name used among immigrants from Italy, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 133 people were named Giovanni (percentage of first or only given name: 47 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
421 847 0 3 421 844
Denmark Denmark[8]
168
n.a.
0
n.a.
168
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
313 0 0
n.a.
313
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
96
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
96
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Giovanni.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
  5. Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1900 https://riksarkivet.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/