Gianna
An Italian form built on the Greek for "god is gracious". In Poland it stays rare: only about 27 women carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Gianna Pronunciation
Gianna is pronounced GYAHN-nah (/ˈgjanna/).
What Gianna means
Where Gianna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gianna is the Italian short form of Giovanna, and Giovanna traces back through Latin to the Greek Ioannes. Greek had taken the name from Hebrew, where Yohanan means "God is gracious." That is the sense a Polish family reads in it today: bóg jest łaskaw. Gianna carries no diminutives of its own. It travels light.
The name has a bearer close to living memory. Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian physician who worked near Milan and died in 1962. The Catholic Church canonized her in 2004, and her feast falls on 28 April. A Polish child named Gianna can keep imieniny on that spring date.
On a class register in Kraków, Gianna sits among the Zuzannas and Julias, the one Italian run of vowels in the column. The final consonant softens into an open a, and the whole name still says the plain old thing: God is gracious.
How many people are named Gianna
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Gianna. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8054 among female names.
Gianna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Gianna as a middle name
Gianna is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1992nd, between Germaine (14) and Gosława (14).
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#1990 Genia14
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#1991 Germaine14
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#1992 Gianna14
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#1993 Gosława14
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#1994 Hatice14