Gardenia
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1937 · 26 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,354since 1917
Gardenia over time
Rank among girls' names. Gardenia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 |
| 1992 | #1,965 | 70 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 |
| 1953 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 |
| 1950 | #3,052 | 12 |
| 1949 | #2,620 | 15 |
| 1948 | #2,416 | 17 |
| 1947 | #2,898 | 13 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #1,993 | 18 |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 |
| 1943 | #2,079 | 18 |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 |
| 1940 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 |
| 1937 | #1,451 | 26 |
| 1936 | #1,873 | 17 |
| 1935 | #2,006 | 16 |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | — | |
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| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
| 1918 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Gardenia! It came in at #4,594, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1923, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Gardenia
- 2,986 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #11,932)
- 3,485 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1937 at #1,451 (26 births)
- Births halved by 1939, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,342 girls born in 1992 were named Gardenia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,451 in 1937, was only 1 in 40,924 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.3% of all girls named Gardenia (315) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,594 (1917) | #4,704 |
| 1920s | 18 | #4,002 (1924) | #4,286 |
| 1930s | 118 | #1,451 (1937) | #2,624 |
| 1940s | 148 | #1,993 (1945) | #2,430 |
| 1950s | 154 | #2,236 (1953) | #3,002 |
| 1960s | 99 | #3,095 (1960) | #4,354 |
| 1970s | 75 | #5,360 (1974) | #6,966 |
| 1980s | 79 | #6,888 (1982) | #8,070 |
| 1990s | 315 | #1,965 (1992) | #3,946 |
| 2000s | 178 | #5,266 (2005) | #6,850 |
| 2010s | 114 | #6,904 (2010) | #9,858 |
| 2020s | 46 | #8,542 (2022) | #10,382 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gardenia in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
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1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 26,342 of them was named Gardenia, which outranked 87.4% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,947Natalee71
- #1,947Shaunice71
- #1,947Sinead71
- #1,965Gardenia70
- #1,965Aislinn70
- #1,965Cailey70
- #1,965Farah70
- #1,987Agnes69
- #1,987Andriana69
- #1,987Ashante69
Tied with 21 names at #1,965; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.