Ginny
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births
- Peak · girls
- 1958 · 242 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,648since 1918
Ginny over time
Rank among girls' names. Ginny has never cracked the top 600 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 | #3,249 | 48 |
| 2024 | #3,013 | 54 |
| 2023 | #2,704 | 64 |
| 2022 | #2,856 | 59 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 |
| 2019 | #4,343 | 32 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 |
| 1991 | #2,189 | 60 |
| 1990 | #1,952 | 70 |
| 1989 | #2,096 | 59 |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 |
| 1987 | #1,792 | 65 |
| 1986 | #1,380 | 93 |
| 1985 | #1,297 | 103 |
| 1984 | #1,205 | 108 |
| 1983 | #1,144 | 116 |
| 1982 | #988 | 149 |
| 1981 | #987 | 148 |
| 1980 | #1,009 | 144 |
| 1979 | #948 | 155 |
| 1978 | #958 | 145 |
| 1977 | #971 | 142 |
| 1976 | #992 | 128 |
| 1975 | #929 | 138 |
| 1974 | #920 | 137 |
| 1973 | #904 | 138 |
| 1972 | #870 | 147 |
| 1971 | #870 | 154 |
| 1970 | #997 | 125 |
| 1969 | #1,117 | 98 |
| 1968 | #1,042 | 100 |
| 1967 | #997 | 105 |
| 1966 | #1,096 | 92 |
| 1965 | #966 | 113 |
| 1964 | #786 | 173 |
| 1963 | #732 | 196 |
| 1962 | #729 | 200 |
| 1961 | #715 | 210 |
| 1960 | #669 | 230 |
| 1959 | #656 | 233 |
| 1958 | #631 | 242 |
| 1957 | #648 | 229 |
| 1956 | #908 | 122 |
| 1955 | #1,010 | 98 |
| 1954 | #958 | 102 |
| 1953 | #968 | 97 |
| 1952 | #887 | 108 |
| 1951 | #952 | 95 |
| 1950 | #1,064 | 75 |
| 1949 | #1,000 | 81 |
| 1948 | #734 | 132 |
| 1947 | #737 | 135 |
| 1946 | #651 | 147 |
| 1945 | #680 | 119 |
| 1944 | #850 | 80 |
| 1943 | #898 | 75 |
| 1942 | #968 | 65 |
| 1941 | #1,133 | 43 |
| 1940 | #1,477 | 27 |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 |
| 1938 | #1,650 | 22 |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 |
| 1936 | #2,153 | 14 |
| 1935 | #2,206 | 14 |
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 |
| 1932 | #2,130 | 15 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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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.
Where Ginny is popular in 1961
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#389 · 1 in 3,089
- Indiana#477 · 1 in 5,545
- Mississippi#484 · 1 in 4,137
- Wisconsin#497 · 1 in 7,366
- Florida#508 · 1 in 5,006
Best ever in a state: #276 in Nebraska, 1981.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | #389 | 9 | 1 in 3,089 |
| Indiana | #477 | 9 | 1 in 5,545 |
| Mississippi | #484 | 6 | 1 in 4,137 |
| Wisconsin | #497 | 6 | 1 in 7,366 |
| Florida | #508 | 10 | 1 in 5,006 |
| Massachusetts | #518 | 6 | 1 in 9,004 |
| Maryland | #529 | 5 | 1 in 6,065 |
| Pennsylvania | #533 | 15 | 1 in 7,403 |
| New Jersey | #558 | 8 | 1 in 7,340 |
| Missouri | #566 | 6 | 1 in 7,383 |
| North Carolina | #572 | 7 | 1 in 6,968 |
| Ohio | #629 | 12 | 1 in 8,687 |
| Illinois | #652 | 12 | 1 in 8,886 |
| Texas | #745 | 14 | 1 in 7,983 |
| California | #758 | 19 | 1 in 9,217 |
| New York | #881 | 11 | 1 in 15,270 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ginny
- 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)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1958 at #631 (242 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1956–1965
- 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%)
- 19.8% of all girls named Ginny (1,517) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 49 | #2,768 (1928) | #3,640 |
| 1930s | 124 | #1,650 (1938) | #2,302 |
| 1940s | 904 | #651 (1946) | #913 |
| 1950s | 1,401 | #631 (1958) | #868 |
| 1960s | 1,517 | #669 (1960) | #885 |
| 1970s | 1,409 | #870 (1971) | #936 |
| 1980s | 1,061 | #987 (1981) | #1,358 |
| 1990s | 406 | #1,952 (1990) | #3,232 |
| 2000s | 229 | #4,358 (2006) | #5,634 |
| 2010s | 245 | #4,343 (2019) | #5,487 |
| 2020s | 298 | #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 1961
Top girls' names in 1961
More about 1961
girls
2,018,495 girls got a published name in 1961; 1 in 9,612 of them was named Ginny, which outranked 90.5% of the 7,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).