Giovanni

Where Giovanni comes from

Borrowed from Italian Giovanni. Doublet of John.
— Wiktionary's entry for Giovanni
  • Italian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1313
    Giovanni Boccaccio born
    Italian author and poet
  2. 1525
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina born
    Italian Renaissance composer
  3. 1907
    First appearance
    #866 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2010
    Peak, #117
    3,434 babies named Giovanni — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian.
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Giovanni Boccaccio · Italian author and poet, 1313–1375
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina · Italian Renaissance composer, 1525–1594
  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini · Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712), 1625–1712
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola · Italian Renaissance philosopher, 1463–1494
  • Giovanni Bellini · 15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter, 1430–1516

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.