Giovanna

Where Giovanna comes from

Giovanna hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,877 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Giovanna of Savoy born
    Bulgarian and Italian Royal
  3. 1976
    Giovanna Antonelli born
    Brazilian actress
  4. 2001
    Peak, #637
    396 babies named Giovanna — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Giovanna Antonelli · Brazilian actress, born 1976
  • Giovanna of Savoy · Bulgarian and Italian Royal, 1907–2000
  • Giovanna Mezzogiorno · Italian actress, born 1974
  • Giovanna Amati · racecar driver, born 1959

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.