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Gi

Girls' name

Diminutive of Giovana

Gi has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Gi, 1988

1 in 739,000

Gi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Giovana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gi means

Gi is a diminutive of Giovana.

Origin, language, and formation

Gi is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giovana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Gi is pronounced /ˈʒi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Gi between 1988 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1988; its best national rank was #12,444 in 1988.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gi?

Gi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 356,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,128 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gi 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gi was born before 1988 — so the typical Gi is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Gi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (5)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,444
1988

Gi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#12,444
1988
Peak year
1988
5 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gi

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

GinGingGiaaGioGigetGinaeGianyGiliaGilahGiftiGinoGillyGiyahMagiNagiGiyaGogiGirtyGittaGinerGipsyGinneyGittleGineva

Sibling names for Gi

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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