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Ginnette

Girls' name

Diminutive of Geneviève

Ginnette has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1958, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ginnette, 1985

1 in 714,000

Ginnette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ginnette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Geneviève

French

What Ginnette means

Ginnette is a diminutive of Geneviève.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Ginnette, a diminutive of Geneviève with -ette.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Ginnette is used in English. Its origins include French.

Ginnette comes through French Ginnette.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Geneviève.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 92 girls were recorded with the name Ginnette between 1958 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1958; its best national rank was #4,293 in 1958.

How common is Ginnette?

Ginnette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985
1 in 714,000
5 of 3,568,740 births
Among girls only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1985
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
494,734 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ginnette 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 1985 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 494,734 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ginnette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ginnettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ginnette was born before 1974 — so the typical Ginnette is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
92
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Ginnette 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 1958 (9)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,293
1958

Spellings of Ginnette

Ginnette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 79.0% against Ginnette's 0.04%.

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.

Ginnette around the world

Where Ginnette 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
    1925–1935
    #1,164
    in 1935
  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #650
    in 1967

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

Ginnette 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
#4,293
1958
Peak year
1958
9 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
92
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ginnette

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

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Sibling names for Ginnette

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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