Gidget
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gidget has been given to 1,586 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1966, with 187 recorded.
Babies named Gidget, 2016
1 in 612,000
Gidget over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gidget?
Gidget had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gidget sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gidget. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gidgets were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gidget was born before 1970 — so the typical Gidget is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 44.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,581
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (705).
Is Gidget 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1966 (187)
- Years since peak
- 59
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.9% average annual change
Spellings of Gidget
Gidget is not the most common spelling — Bridget is, with 65.5% against Gidget's 1.1%.
Where Gidget is used
Across 1910–2025, Gidget was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 183,460 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gidget has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gidget around the world
Where Gidget 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.
- South Australia1974–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gidget by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gidget
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gidget
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.