Gianluca

Where Gianluca comes from

From Italian Gianluca (literally “John-Luke”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Gianluca
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    Gianluca Vialli born
    Italian association football player and manager
  2. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,375 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1977
    Gianluca Zambrotta born
    Italian association football player
  4. 2017
    Peak, #987
    207 babies named Gianluca — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Gianluca Zambrotta · Italian association football player, born 1977
  • Gianluca Vialli · Italian association football player and manager, 1964–2023
  • Gianluca Pagliuca · Italian association football player, born 1966
  • Gianluca Pessotto · Italian association football player, born 1970
  • Gianluca Scamacca · Italian association football player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.