Girl Names That Start With G
Girls' 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 girls, 2025
- 2.5%
- vs 2.4% in 2000
- Names in use
- 289
- 1,480 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1904
- at 4.3% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #15
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,127#38 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 437#655 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 73#2,447 | Down 495 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 2,619#99 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 90#2,085 | Down 473 rank positions in five years | 1967 | |||
| 459#633 | Down 275 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 2,545#105 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 1,981#148 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 848#360 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 5,634#33 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 3,527#66 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 125#1,657 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 961#317 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 1,344#227 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 180#1,248 | Down 293 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 803#382 | Down 50 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 469#621 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 384#725 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 291#908 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 1967 | |||
| 1,805#170 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,069#287 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 410#689 | Up 616 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 109#1,835 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 659#466 | Down 145 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 304#878 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 698#442 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 162#1,361 | Up 865 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 287#915 | Down 215 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 111#1,812 | Down 463 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 285#921 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 153#1,418 | Up 480 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 446#647 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 114#1,771 | Down 329 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 65#2,665 | Up 638 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 204#1,138 | Up 289 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 231#1,061 | Down 124 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 107#1,859 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 150#1,438 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 295#899 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 70#2,519 | Down 591 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 203#1,141 | Up 354 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 193#1,194 | Up 294 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 164#1,351 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 108#1,851 | Up 259 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 96#1,996 | Up 206 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 94#2,025 | Down 356 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 157#1,392 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 71#2,495 | Up 922 rank positions in five years | 1965 | |||
| 94#2,026 | Up 613 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 86#2,160 | Up 877 rank positions in five years | 2023 |
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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.