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Ginnie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Virginia

Ginnie has been given to 787 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1960, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Ginnie, 2021

1 in 484,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ginnie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Virginia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ginnie means

Ginnie is a diminutive of Virginia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ginnie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɪn.i/ for Ginnie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ginnie → Virginia. The family’s proposed meaning is “maid, virgin”, recorded in the naming reference for Virginia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virginia and Ginevra.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ginnie is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 787 girls were recorded with the name Ginnie between 1927 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,116 in 1960.

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 Ginnie?

Ginnie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ginnie 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 2021 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 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ginnie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ginnies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ginnie was born before 1963 — so the typical Ginnie is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
624
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Ginnie 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 1960 (30)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,116
1960

Spellings of Ginnie

Ginnie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 23.8% against Ginnie's 0.05%.

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 Ginnie is used

Across 1910–2025, Ginnie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Ginnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ginnie around the world

Where Ginnie 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
    2013–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ginnie 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
#2,116
1960
Peak year
1960
30 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
787
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ginnie

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

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Sibling names for Ginnie

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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