Ginger
#3,296 for girls in 2025, 47 births · Last seen for boys in 1975 at #3,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1971 · 1,670 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 46,218since 1913
Ginger over time
Rank among girls' names. Ginger has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,296 | 47 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,278 | 49 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,064 | 93 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,807 | 112 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,679 | 125 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,513 | 148 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,405 | 168 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,664 | 134 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,385 | 174 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,567 | 138 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,392 | 154 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,528 | 131 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,463 | 134 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,425 | 134 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,585 | 117 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,617 | 109 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,573 | 107 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,405 | 122 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,577 | 99 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,531 | 100 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,394 | 116 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,138 | 155 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,154 | 153 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,175 | 146 | — | |
| 1989 | #995 | 173 | — | |
| 1988 | #824 | 221 | — | |
| 1987 | #766 | 235 | — | |
| 1986 | #639 | 289 | — | |
| 1985 | #580 | 336 | — | |
| 1984 | #476 | 431 | — | |
| 1983 | #407 | 528 | — | |
| 1982 | #346 | 683 | — | |
| 1981 | #329 | 720 | — | |
| 1980 | #324 | 751 | — | |
| 1979 | #315 | 758 | — | |
| 1978 | #244 | 995 | — | |
| 1977 | #259 | 952 | — | |
| 1976 | #226 | 1,079 | — | |
| 1975 | #225 | 1,076 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #198 | 1,281 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #202 | 1,271 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #210 | 1,317 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #187 | 1,670 | — | |
| 1970 | #226 | 1,381 | — | |
| 1969 | #235 | 1,276 | — | |
| 1968 | #236 | 1,191 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #244 | 1,161 | — | |
| 1966 | #247 | 1,148 | — | |
| 1965 | #257 | 1,110 | — | |
| 1964 | #258 | 1,183 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #253 | 1,225 | — | |
| 1962 | #261 | 1,185 | — | |
| 1961 | #280 | 1,083 | — | |
| 1960 | #266 | 1,137 | — | |
| 1959 | #266 | 1,091 | — | |
| 1958 | #292 | 953 | — | |
| 1957 | #276 | 1,005 | — | |
| 1956 | #280 | 973 | — | |
| 1955 | #301 | 845 | — | |
| 1954 | #290 | 859 | — | |
| 1953 | #284 | 860 | — | |
| 1952 | #266 | 903 | — | |
| 1951 | #267 | 866 | — | |
| 1950 | #303 | 657 | — | |
| 1949 | #300 | 665 | — | |
| 1948 | #317 | 600 | — | |
| 1947 | #302 | 684 | — | |
| 1946 | #301 | 596 | — | |
| 1945 | #369 | 362 | — | |
| 1944 | #398 | 317 | — | |
| 1943 | #412 | 313 | — | |
| 1942 | #491 | 229 | — | |
| 1941 | #459 | 226 | — | |
| 1940 | #474 | 202 | — | |
| 1939 | #520 | 165 | — | |
| 1938 | #586 | 138 | — | |
| 1937 | #529 | 156 | — | |
| 1936 | #469 | 188 | — | |
| 1935 | #592 | 120 | — | |
| 1934 | #768 | 76 | — | |
| 1933 | #858 | 61 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,320 | 31 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,287 | 32 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,320 | 33 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,892 | 19 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,897 | 20 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,587 | 27 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,414 | 32 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,504 | 30 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,244 | 41 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,520 | 29 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,730 | 24 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,298 | 36 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,375 | 33 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,649 | 24 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,600 | 25 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,923 | 18 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,368 | 13 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,800 | 18 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Ginger! It came in at #3,187, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ginger
- 220 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #3,296)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #3,296)
- 677 spots since 2015 (#2,619 → #3,296)
- Biggest jump: 462 spots in 1933 (#1,320 → #858)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 1990 (#995 → #1,175)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1971 at #187 (1,670 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1933–1989
- Highest: 1 in 996 girls born in 1971 were named Ginger (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,197 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.5% of all girls named Ginger (11,780) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 111 | #1,600 (1918) | #2,166 |
| 1920s | 291 | #1,244 (1924) | #1,546 |
| 1930s | 1,000 | #469 (1936) | #825 |
| 1940s | 4,194 | #300 (1949) | #382 |
| 1950s | 9,012 | #266 (1959) | #283 |
| 1960s | 11,699 | #235 (1969) | #254 |
| 1970s | 11,780 | #187 (1971) | #229 |
| 1980s | 4,367 | #324 (1980) | #569 |
| 1990s | 1,227 | #1,138 (1992) | #1,383 |
| 2000s | 1,393 | #1,385 (2007) | #1,503 |
| 2010s | 862 | #1,513 (2010) | #2,337 |
| 2020s | 282 | #3,274 (2023) | #3,339 |
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.
Ginger in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 1,147 of them was named Ginger, which outranked 97.9% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 222,654 of them was named Ginger, which outranked 31.0% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,694Zebedee8
- #3,694Zebulun8
- #3,694Zenas8
- #4,054Ginger7
- #4,054Aaran7
- #4,054Abron7
- #4,054Adair7
- #4,505Abdu6
- #4,505Abelino6
- #4,505Able6
Tied with 450 names at #4,054; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.