Gigi
Gigi was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,831 among girls’ names; 4,472 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Gigi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 21 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gigi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gigi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gigi is “a female given name from French.”
Borrowed from French Gigi. Sometimes a pet form of English names such as Virginia or Genesis. Occasionally from initials G.G. (e.g. George General 'Gigi' Gryce).
/ˈd͡ʒid͡ʒi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gigi?
#2,831 among girls’ names, 2025
Gigi rose from #3,794 in 2015 to #2,831 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 22.4 to 37.3 per million.
271 babies in 1962, the peak
Gigi peaked in 1962, when 271 girls were given it, #608 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,831 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,569 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,830 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,057 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,257 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,476 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,138 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,069 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,944 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,574 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,794 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,071 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,191 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,736 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,940 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,478 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,767 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,485 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,999 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,718 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,140 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,981 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,051 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,525 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,356 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,089 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,157 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,560 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,347 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,430 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,058 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,734 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,742 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,531 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,566 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,263 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,774 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,027 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,336 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,683 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,199 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,246 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,031 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,411 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,818 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,246 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,918 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,324 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,695 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,639 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,457 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,182 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 94 | #1,077 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 121 | #920 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 140 | #841 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 195 | #745 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 206 | #712 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 271 | #608 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 269 | #624 | 0.13 |
| 1960 | 259 | #626 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 250 | #630 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 124 | #924 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,459 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,978 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,637 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,384 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,987 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,608 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,713 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,604 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gigi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gigi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gigi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gigi, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 4,472 Americans ever recorded as Gigi. The median Gigi alive today is 58 years old; half are between 21 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 5,731 people named Gigi (5,569 women and girls, 162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,670 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 832 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 284 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 463 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 752 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gigi born?
The states with the most babies named Gigi are California, New York and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 885 | #1,778 | 1.9× |
| New York | 332 | #1,711 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 206 | #3,480 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 176 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 112 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 89 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 55 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Gigi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gigi is most over-represented in California: since 1940 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gigi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 28,043 babies since 1880, Gigi is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 1,157 babies (5.2%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gigi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Liz | 10,223 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gigi and names like it
- Compare Gigi and GiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGigi peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gigi since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Gigi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Gigi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gigi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.