Gianni
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, and no boys were given it last year: most Poles have never met a Gianni. It's the Italian form of John, from Greek for "god is gracious".
Gianni Pronunciation
Gianni is pronounced GYAHN-nyee (/ˈgjanɲi/).
What Gianni means
Where Gianni comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gianni comes from Giovanni, the Italian form of John. Behind Giovanni sits the Greek Ioannes, the shape that carried the older Hebrew Yohanan west into Italy. The meaning held through each of those languages: god is gracious.
In Italy the name reads as warm and familiar. Gianni Rodari, the writer who gave children Cipollino and a shelf of nonsense rhymes, carried it far past the peninsula. Gianni Versace put it on fashion pages worldwide. The name sounds unmistakably Italian. The meaning never changed.
On a Polish class register Gianni stands out among the Jakubs and Kacpers. It arrives with the ring of Italy, though the sense runs back to Greek and older still. God is gracious: that is what the boy answers to under the foreign vowels.
How many people are named Gianni
1 in 288462 men in Poland is named Gianni. 74 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4160 among male names.
Gianni as a middle name
Gianni is a first name for 74 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2503rd, between Eugène (14) and Giulio (14).
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#2501 Eloy14
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#2502 Eugène14
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#2503 Gianni14
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#2504 Giulio14
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#2505 Gniewosław14