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Gift

#9,059 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

English word name: gift

Gift has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #9,059 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% girls, 18% boys all-time.

Babies named Gift, 2025

1 in 301,000

Gift over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Gift over time

In 2025, Gift went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19992025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Gift: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: gift

English

What Gift means

Gift is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word gift; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 176 girls were recorded with the name Gift between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,722 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,928 in 2020 to #9,059 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,700 in 2015 to #9,059 in 2025.

In the United States, 38 boys were recorded with the name Gift between 2016 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2019; its best national rank was #7,320 in 2019.

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 Gift?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,059
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gift 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gift. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gifts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gift was born before 2017 — so the typical Gift is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
176
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Gift 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
−1,337
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,869
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+641
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.6%
Peak was 2018 (14)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,722
2024

Spellings of Gift

Gift is not the most common spelling — Gina is, with 81.1% against Gift's 0.09%.

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.

Gift around the world

Where Gift 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
    2001–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #666
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2001–2004
    #677
    in 2004
  • France
    2008–2025
    #5,883
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gift by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,059
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,869
Best rank ever
#7,722
2024
Peak year
2018
14 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
176
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,320
2019
Peak year
2019
11 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gift

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

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Sibling names for Gift

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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