Ging

Girls' name

Possibly maiden, virgin, through Ginger

Ging has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1979, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Ging, 1979

1 in 665,000

Ging over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ging: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly maiden, virgin, through Ginger

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ging means

Ging belongs to the name family reached through Ging → Ginger → Virginia → Virginia. Its meaning is “maiden, virgin”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Clipped form of Ginger, itself sometimes a nickname for Virginia.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ging (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ging is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ginger and Virginia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ging is pronounced /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Ging between 1979 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1979; its best national rank was #10,720 in 1979.

How common is Ging?

Ging had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979: 1 in 665,000; 5 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 461,184 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ging 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 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ging. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ging was born before 1979 — so the typical Ging is around 46 today.

Median birth year: 1979; About 46 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 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

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Ging 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: —; 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 1979 (5)
Years since peak: 46; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,720; 1979

Spellings of Ging

Ging is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 35.0% against Ging's <0.01%.

Tina35.0%292,146
Gina18.4%153,057
Nina16.0%133,788
Ginger5.5%46,218
Ina4.1%34,074
Dina3.8%32,021
Gia2.7%22,695
Lina2.3%19,489

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.

Ging 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: —
Best rank ever: #10,720; 1979
Peak year: 1979; 5 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 1979
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ging

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

Ginae Gino Gin Sing Qing Giner Ginney Gineva Anning Xing Ginine Ginneh Ginaya Ping Zing Shing Gindy Ning Ginell Wing Yuting Yiqing Tpring Ayling

Sibling names for Ging

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

For a sister

Bambi Shanika Mellissa Latosha Adria Lani Malissa Lindy

For a brother

Delvin Leopoldo Jerod Cedrick Reggie Torrey Jed Wilfredo

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