Ginny

#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births

Peak · girls
1958 · 242 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,648
since 1918

Ginny over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ginny has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201946peak #631, 1958girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#3,24948
2024#3,01354
2023#2,70464
2022#2,85659
2021#3,88338
2020#4,00535
2019#4,34332
2018#5,00726
2017#4,92227
2016#5,62223
2015#6,03621
2014#4,65730
2013#6,01721
2012#6,87218
2011#5,20726
2010#6,18221
2009#6,09122
2008#4,64732
2007#5,37726
2006#4,35833
2005#6,82017
2004#6,21619
2003#6,29918
2002#5,67320
2001#6,06718
2000#4,79124
1999#3,97029
1998#4,02328
1997#4,66022
1996#3,94227
1995#3,58530
1994#2,79743
1993#2,88241
1992#2,31856
1991#2,18960
1990#1,95270
1989#2,09659
1988#1,68676
1987#1,79265
1986#1,38093
1985#1,297103
1984#1,205108
1983#1,144116
1982#988149
1981#987148
1980#1,009144
1979#948155
1978#958145
1977#971142
1976#992128
1975#929138
1974#920137
1973#904138
1972#870147
1971#870154
1970#997125
1969#1,11798
1968#1,042100
1967#997105
1966#1,09692
1965#966113
1964#786173
1963#732196
1962#729200
1961#715210
1960#669230
1959#656233
1958#631242
1957#648229
1956#908122
1955#1,01098
1954#958102
1953#96897
1952#887108
1951#95295
1950#1,06475
1949#1,00081
1948#734132
1947#737135
1946#651147
1945#680119
1944#85080
1943#89875
1942#96865
1941#1,13343
1940#1,47727
1939#2,41712
1938#1,65022
1937#2,31713
1936#2,15314
1935#2,20614
1934#2,74110
1933#2,05215
1932#2,13015
1931
1930#3,0559
1929#4,0536
1928#2,76811
1927#3,05310
1926#4,8515
1925
1924#3,14410
1923#3,9717
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1918#4,8095
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five girls were named Ginny! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Ginny
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 236 spots since 2024 (#3,013#3,249)
  • 756 spots since 2020 (#4,005#3,249)
  • 2,787 spots since 2015 (#6,036#3,249)
  • Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1957 (#908#648)
  • Biggest drop: 266 spots in 1949 (#734#1,000)
Rise & fade · girls
40 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 1958 at #631 (242 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1956–1965
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,312
  • Highest: 1 in 8,312 girls born in 1958 were named Ginny (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 33,485 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 19.8% of all girls named Ginny (1,517) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,809 (1918)#4,809
1920s49#2,768 (1928)#3,640
1930s124#1,650 (1938)#2,302
1940s904#651 (1946)#913
1950s1,401#631 (1958)#868
1960s1,517#669 (1960)#885
1970s1,409#870 (1971)#936
1980s1,061#987 (1981)#1,358
1990s406#1,952 (1990)#3,232
2000s229#4,358 (2006)#5,634
2010s245#4,343 (2019)#5,487
2020s298#2,704 (2023)#3,285

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.

Ginny in 1946

girls
#651
147 births · 1 in 10,689 girls

Top girls' names in 1946

  1. #1Mary67,471
  2. #2Linda52,710
  3. #3Patricia46,297
  4. #4Barbara45,126
  5. #5Carol34,284
  6. #6Sandra31,692
  7. #7Nancy28,345
  8. #8Susan28,267
  9. #9Sharon27,824
  10. #10Judith22,310
  11. #651Ginny147
More about 1946

girls

1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 10,689 of them was named Ginny, which outranked 88.6% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ginny
  1. #646Letha149
  2. #646Lilly149
  3. #646Mercedes149
  4. #651Ginny147
  5. #651Angeline147
  6. #651Ila147
  7. #651Rosella147
  8. #655Charleen146
  9. #655Elisabeth146
  10. #655Pattie146

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1945
Risers
  1. 1,830Jacalyn#2,742#912
  2. 914Kimberly#1,621#707
  3. 615Suzette#1,032#417
  4. 538Randi#1,356#818
  5. 528Dayle#1,356#828
Fallers
  1. 335Oma#941#1,276
  2. 324Iola#824#1,148
  3. 324Artie#994#1,318
  4. 303Eartha#954#1,257
  5. 301Willia#830#1,131

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1946