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Ginette

Girls' name

Possibly kin, family + woman, wife, through Geneviève

Ginette has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1959, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Ginette, 2019

1 in 579,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ginette: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly kin, family + woman, wife, through Geneviève

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ginette means

Ginette belongs to the name family reached through Ginette → Geneviève. Its meaning is “kin, family + woman, wife”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ginette is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Geneviève.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Ginette is pronounced /ʒi.nɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 881 girls were recorded with the name Ginette between 1940 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,929 in 1959.

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 Ginette?

Ginette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ginette 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ginette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ginettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ginette was born before 1970 — so the typical Ginette is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
834
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Choose a decade

1960s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (204).

Is Ginette 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (34)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,929
1959

Spellings of Ginette

Ginette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 50.1% against Ginette's 0.26%.

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.

Where Ginette is used

Across 1910–2025, Ginette was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 297,075 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Ginette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ginette around the world

Where Ginette 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.

  • France
    1909–1998
    #2,402
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #2,149
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1957–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ginette 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
#1,929
1959
Peak year
1959
34 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
881
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ginette

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

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Sibling names for Ginette

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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