Yovanni
Masculine · “God is gracious”
Yovanni is a Spanish-language spelling of Giovanni, and behind it is the largest name family in the world — Yohanan, which gives John everywhere.
How old is the name Yovanni?
Yovanni first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Yovanni alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 700 people named Yovanni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yovanni most popular?
Yovanni peaked in 2009, reaching #2894 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 1,355 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Yovanni
The story of Yovanni
Italian Giovanni came into Latin American naming through emigration and through fashion, and Spanish speakers wrote it as they heard it — Yovanni, Jovani, Giovanny, Yovany. That is the same phonetic instinct that gives Jhonny for Johnny and Maikol for Michael. It appears in American records with Mexican, Guatemalan and Dominican families in real numbers.
Meaning
God is gracious
From Hebrew Yohanan through Latin Iohannes and Italian Giovanni; the compound joins a shortened form of the divine name to a root meaning to be gracious. The Spanish respelling writes the Italian sound with Spanish letters.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Iohannes
- Giovanni
- Yovanni
Related forms: Giovanni · Juan · John
Pronouncing Yovanni
yo-VAH-nee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Yovanni
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
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 200941 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2894reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +50.0%24 in 2025, from 16
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.
Yovanni in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Giovanni in Italian — related form
- Juan in Spanish — related form
- John in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Yovannis among us
people named Yovanni are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Yovanni
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yovanni
- #4249
- Yovanni on the 2025 chart
- #852
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yovanni went to 24 boys in 2025, but Yovani, Yovany and Yovanny are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 76, which makes it the 852nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,397 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 22,475 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 71,170 for Yovanni 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 Jamien test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yovanni's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jamien climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jamien's path sketches the road Yovanni is walking now.
Yovanni 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
Yovanni beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yovanni 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 Yovi are both warm short forms.
- Every letter is said, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Giovanni is the standard Italian spelling and will be offered as a correction.
- Yovanni, Jovani, Giovanny and Yovany 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 Yovannis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Yovanni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yovanni?
- Yovanni is one of 4 recorded spellings. Yovani is the more common one — 34 births in 2025 against 24 for Yovanni.
- How popular is the name Yovanni in 2025?
- Yovanni ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yovanni?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Yovanni — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yovanni with classmates?
- Yovanni will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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