Geovani
Masculine · “God is gracious”
Geovani is a Latin American spelling of Giovanni, and the g is doing something Spanish does not normally allow before an o.
How old is the name Geovani?
Geovani first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Geovani alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,500 people named Geovani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Geovani most popular?
Geovani peaked in 2009, reaching #1861 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 2,678 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Geovani
Ours, offered as ours. Spanish g before o is hard, as in gato; the Italian Giovanni needs a soft j sound there, which Spanish spells with a different letter entirely. So Latin American families writing the name have to improvise — Geovani, Jeovany, Yovani, Giovanny — and each is a different solution to the same phonetic problem. That is a whole family of spellings generated by one incompatibility between two writing systems.
Meaning
God is gracious
From Hebrew Yohanan through Latin Iohannes and Italian Giovanni; the compound joins a shortened divine name to a root meaning to be gracious. The Spanish respelling adds an e to keep the Italian sound.
Pronouncing Geovani
jyo-VAH-nee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Geovani
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 200978 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1861reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +4.8%22 in 2025, from 21
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Geovani in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Giovanni in Italian — related form
- Yovani in Spanish — spelling variant
- John in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Geovanis among us
people named Geovani are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Geovani
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Geovani
- #4539
- Geovani on the 2025 chart
- #771
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Geovani went to 22 boys in 2025, but Geovanni, Geovanny and Geovany are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 157, which makes it the 771st most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,768 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 10,879 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 77,640 for Geovani itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ladell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Geovani's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ladell climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ladell's path sketches the road Geovani is walking now.
Geovani sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Geovani beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Geovani in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Gio and Geo are both usable short forms in current use.
- One of the great name families of Europe stands behind it.
- Giovanni is the standard Italian spelling and will be offered as a correction.
- Geovani, Yovani, Jeovany and Giovanny are all in use in the same families.
- Seven letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
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Frequently asked
- How many Geovanis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Geovani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Geovani?
- Geovani is one of 4 recorded spellings. Geovanni is the more common one — 79 births in 2025 against 22 for Geovani.
- How popular is the name Geovani in 2025?
- Geovani ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Geovani?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Geovani — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Geovani with classmates?
- Geovani will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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