Gini
Gini was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 505 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gini by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gini?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,346, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1958, the peak
Gini peaked in 1958, when 27 girls were given it, #2,180 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #12,346 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,854 | 3.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,059 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,917 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,228 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,451 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,603 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,632 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,043 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,327 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 9 | #6,572 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,514 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,334 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,261 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,480 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,654 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,219 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,703 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,993 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,167 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,077 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,912 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,811 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,967 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,432 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,447 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,361 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,371 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,595 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,540 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,180 | 13.4 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,303 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,966 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,360 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,385 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,983 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,862 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,809 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,582 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,469 | 5.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,496 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,210 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,235 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,878 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gini a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gini has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gini: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gini, and how old are they?
An estimated 433 Americans named Gini and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 52 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 619 people named Gini (609 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Gini?
Gini is a less common spelling of Ginny: SSA has recorded 505 Gini and 7,648 Ginny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 173,977 babies since 1880, Gini is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 439 babies recorded by SSA was a Gini (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gini
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Gini and names like it
- Compare Gini and GinnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGini peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gini since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Gini.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gini alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.