Gift — #7797 US unisex name
165 babies named Gift in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to girls today.
45% of everyone ever named Gift was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Gift in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Gift
The Social Security Administration has registered 165 babies named Gift between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gift currently holds the #7797 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Gift is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 2016.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Gift performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 74 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Gift shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Gift in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 165 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Gift at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Gift popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1999
- Peak year (2018)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
Currently ranks #7797 among girls.
165 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 14 births in a single year.
Gift popularity over time — boys
38 total births recorded since 2016 (Gift as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Gift accounts for 19% of total recorded use across both genders.
Gift by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 74 births that decade — 45% of Gift's all-time total
Gift decade highlights
- Peak decade 74 births
- Runner-up 49 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Gift's strongest decade
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.