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Gargi

#12,334 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Gargi has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #12,334 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Gargi, 2025

1 in 474,000

Gargi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gargi: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gargi means

Gargi is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gargi is used in Hinduism, Hindi and Bengali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 girls were recorded with the name Gargi between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,033 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,573 in 2020 to #12,334 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,695 in 2015 to #12,334 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Gargi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,334
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gargi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gargi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gargis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gargi was born before 2015 — so the typical Gargi is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Gargi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−5,301
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,761
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,639
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.8%
Peak was 2024 (16)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,033
2024

Spellings of Gargi

Gargi is not the most common spelling — Margie is, with 29.6% against Gargi's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gargi around the world

Where Gargi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2021–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gargi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,334
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,761
Best rank ever
#7,033
2024
Peak year
2024
16 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Gargi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gargi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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