Gianna

Gianna meaning

Gianna is an international and Christian girl's name of Hebrew origin (via Italian).

Italian short form of Giovanna (Joanna): 'Yahweh has been gracious'

Also used to mean: God is gracious

Gianna is an Italian short form of Giovanna, the feminine of Giovanni, which is the Italian John. John comes from the Hebrew Yehochanan, made of the divine name and the verb chanan, "to be gracious"; Strong's concordance translates it as "Jehovah-favoured" and the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon as "Yahweh has been gracious", so name lists give Gianna as "God is gracious". Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian paediatrician who died in 1962 shortly after giving birth to her fourth child and was canonised in 2004, is a patron of mothers and physicians. It is pronounced JAH-nuh or jee-AH-nuh.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary, H3076 · entry Yehochanan (יְהוֹחָנָן) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Strong's H3076, Yehochanan (biblehub.com) · Wikipedia, Gianna Beretta Molla

Famous namesakes

• Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian physician

Popularity abroad

• #33 United States, girls 2025 (down 10 from 23 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #312 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Gianna · Giana · Jianna · Gina

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