New parents across the U.S. are honoring Kobe and Gianna Bryant in a BIG way ... experts say babies with the names 'Kobe' and 'Gianna' have risen dramatically in 2020.
According to, there's been a huge increase in newborns with the names since the NBA legend and his daughter tragically died in a helicopter crash in January.
Per the site -- which gets its data from over 500,000 new babies that were registered to the site this year -- Kobe vaulted from #595 on the list in 2019 to #216 in 2020.As for Gianna, her name among newborns rose from #76 to #24 . In case you were wondering, the top 10 for the year for boys included Liam, Noah, Jackson, Aiden, Elijah, Grayson, Lucas, Oliver, Caden and Mateo.
For girls, the top 10 went Sophia, Olivia, Riley, Emma, Ava, Isabella, Aria, Aaliyah, Amelia and Mia. Some other notables?"LeBron" fell in popularity ... dropping from #2,956 to #3,704."Donald," meanwhile, dipped from #821 to #976.
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