Giovanni
Giovanni is a boy name of Italian origin, meaning God is gracious.
What Giovanni means
God is gracious.
Giovanni sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Giovanni comes from
Italian names preserve Latin forms more directly than most European languages, often keeping the original vowel endings that other languages dropped.
Giovanni is recorded as Italian in origin. Browse other Italian names.
How popular is Giovanni?
Giovanni sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Giovanni
We group Giovanni under faith. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Faith
Names like Giovanni
These share Giovanni's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Gennaro — Devoted; of January.
- Angelo — Angel; a messenger.
- Salvatore — Saviour.
- Donatella — Given by God.
- Raffaella — God has healed.
- Declan — Full of goodness; an Irish saint.
- Geoffrey — Peace of God.
- Gilbert — Bright pledge.
- Gregory — Watchful and vigilant.
- Gustav — Staff of the gods.
- Makoto — Sincerity, truth.
- Abraham — Father of multitudes.