Boy Names That Start With G
Boys' names beginning with G, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 2.7%
- vs 2.7% in 2000
- Names in use
- 298
- 1,192 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1885
- at 6.1% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #16
- by 2025 share
How G has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with G, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,848#126 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 201#1,073 | Down 266 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 493#593 | Down 158 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 168#1,206 | Down 251 rank positions in five years | 1942 | |||
| 6,569#37 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 124#1,443 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 1,125#303 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 209#1,052 | Down 87 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 1,555#228 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 526#564 | Down 200 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 145#1,330 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 5,805#51 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 103#1,637 | Down 275 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 2,939#123 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 2,967#120 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 235#973 | Down 498 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 2,439#149 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 401#678 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 851#373 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,627#222 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 3,860#86 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 447#625 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 264#902 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 114#1,521 | Down 332 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 597#506 | Down 198 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 993#337 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 145#1,331 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 462#612 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 571#524 | Down 170 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 166#1,218 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 127#1,423 | Up 120 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 112#1,541 | Down 112 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 125#1,438 | Down 228 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 148#1,312 | Down 154 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 122#1,459 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 222#1,014 | Down 236 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 98#1,680 | Down 506 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 128#1,418 | Down 181 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 244#956 | Up 246 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 217#1,026 | Down 247 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 132#1,390 | Down 488 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 108#1,576 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 181#1,156 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 149#1,305 | Down 481 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 173#1,186 | Down 121 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 103#1,636 | Down 565 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 115#1,514 | Up 220 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 197#1,091 | Up 570 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,692 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 96#1,702 | Up 1,523 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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G names climbing fastest
Biggest G names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.