Gianna or Giovanna?

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Please help me choose between these two names!

Gianna ❤️ We have a Gia in our family which is lovely too.

Giovanna

It’s lovely - much more elegant than Gianna. I had a fantastic great aunt Giovanna, she had marvellous jewellery!

Gianna!

Giovanna screams Italian grandma to me...

Gianna’s a bit old lady plus the only one I know under 70 is rough as fuck so that may colour my judgement 😳

Giovanna is more elegant and more timeless. I suppose it depends if you’re going to be visiting Italy a lot.

Do you have Italian heritage?

I prefer Giovanna.
Gianna feels too much like Liana, Deanna, Breanna etc.

'GIOVANNA' can be yelled much more dramatically than Gianna.

Neither if you’re not Italian.

🙄

You do know it's seriously old-fashioned in Italy? It really is only used these days in honour of grandmothers?
There's nothing wrong with it, it would just surprise any Italians that it had been chosen as anything other than an obligation to honour gran.
Kind of the equivalent of calling a baby Mavis or Doreen or something.

If you're going to use it though use Giovanna which rings slightly less old fashioned than Gianna. I know of only one of each. Giovanna is one of my students and is 16 and named after her gran, while Gianna is a retired Latin teacher.

That's a ridiculously stupid comment.

I love both as they are different but familiar. I would go with Giovanna as it could be shortened to Gianna anyway. And it's sounds glamorous.

Well it’s an Italian name and they’re going to be asked every time they say what their name is.

Most names originate somewhere. Doesn't mean you can use them outside of the radius 😂

You do know that many names we use here are actually Italian? e.g. Sofia, Maria, Isabella, Mia, Francesca etc. Can you only be Italian to use these names?

For what it's worth though (not that it actually matters), my husband is Italian. HTH

Surely that only matters if the OP lives in Italy (and cares about using a trendy name)?

Those are particularly Italian.

your child WILL get asked whose heritage the name comes from.

Oh no, and what will happen then???

I know what the pp means. Doesn't apply to the OP as her child will be half Italian but I would find it a bit strange if someone had kids called Chiara and Alessandro without any Italian heritage.

@underneaththeash who cares if someone asks about the name though? The response would just be 'we're not Italian, we just love the name' and then everyone just moves on with their day. Complete non issue

Isn’t that bloody obvious. Just think.

It will happen every other time though.

OP don’t call you child either name.

I think the thing is, that lots of Italian (and other) names have been assimilated into other languages with no issues. Francesca is one of them.

Giovanna isn't. I'm surprised that an Italian wouldn't know how (sorry) pretty awful most Italians would consider it.

(and if an Italian said they were going to call their baby Mavis, I imagine Brits would tell them how old-fashioned and not in a good way it is)

Oh hi Giovanna, is your family Italian?
No, my mum just loved the name
....?

What terrible thing happens next? Little Giovanna is cast out of society?

OK, so say you go to Italy and meet a little girl called Mavis and think 'that's quite an old fashioned name, I don't really like it'. What's the problem?