Casanova
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Casanova by the numbers
Casanova was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 14 babies in 1988, making it a 1980s name.
What we can tell you about Casanova
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Casanova. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Casandraa variant of Cassandra; she who entangles men24 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Casanova
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