Ginny
Ginny was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,268 among girls’ names; 7,648 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,510 Americans named Ginny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 42 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ginny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ginny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ginny is “a diminutive of the female given names Virginia and Ginevra.”
Diminutive + -y
/ˈd͡ʒɪni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ginny?
#3,268 among girls’ names, 2025
Ginny rose from #6,106 in 2015 to #3,268 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 29.9 per million.
242 babies in 1958, the peak
Ginny peaked in 1958, when 242 girls were given it, #631 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,268 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,028 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,711 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,873 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,899 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,040 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,375 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,058 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,969 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,680 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,106 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,690 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,099 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,960 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,265 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,254 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,174 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,684 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,425 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,389 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,934 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,310 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,396 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,735 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,153 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,844 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,002 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,061 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,709 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,971 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,611 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,803 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,895 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,324 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,955 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,690 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,797 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,381 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,301 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 108 | #1,209 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 116 | #1,146 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 149 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 148 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 155 | #948 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 145 | #960 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 142 | #974 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 128 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 138 | #929 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 137 | #920 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 138 | #905 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 147 | #870 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 154 | #871 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 125 | #999 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,119 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,044 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 105 | #997 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 92 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 113 | #969 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 173 | #789 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 196 | #732 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 200 | #730 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 210 | #716 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 230 | #669 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 233 | #657 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 242 | #631 | 0.12 |
| 1957 | 229 | #648 | 0.11 |
| 1956 | 122 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 102 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 97 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 108 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 95 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 75 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 81 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 132 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 135 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 147 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 119 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 80 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 75 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 65 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,474 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,669 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,266 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,850 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,129 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,115 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ginny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ginny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ginny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ginny, and how old are they?
6,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 7,648 Americans ever recorded as Ginny. The median Ginny alive today is 55 years old; half are between 42 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 6,417 people named Ginny (6,397 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 246 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,920 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 369 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 475 |
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 Ginny born?
The states with the most babies named Ginny are California, Texas and Ohio, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 625 | #2,892 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 455 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 342 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 300 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 290 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 239 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 160 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 152 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 149 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 134 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Ginny 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 285,040 babies since 1880, Ginny is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 6,090 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Ginny
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 Ginny and names like it
- Compare Ginny and GinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGinny peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ginny since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Ginny.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ginny alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.