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Ginny

#3,268 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Virginia

Ginny has been given to 7,648 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #3,268 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 242 recorded.

Babies named Ginny, 2025

1 in 69,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ginny: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Virginia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ginny means

Ginny is a diminutive of Virginia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Ginny is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virginia and Ginevra.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ginny is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,648 girls were recorded with the name Ginny between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 242 in 1958; its best national rank was #631 in 1958.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,040 in 2020 to #3,268 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,106 in 2015 to #3,268 in 2025.

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 Ginny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,268
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ginny 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ginny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ginnys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ginny was born before 1968 — so the typical Ginny is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,566
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (1,517).

Is Ginny 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
−240
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+772
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,838
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.8%
Peak was 1958 (242)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#631
1958

Spellings of Ginny

Ginny is not the most common spelling — Cindy is, with 30.0% against Ginny's 0.89%.

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 Ginny is used

Across 1910–2025, Ginny was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 39,440 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Indiana1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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. Ginny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ginny around the world

Where Ginny 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
    1996–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • France
    2010–2025
    #2,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #1,786
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1975–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ginny

People whose public names include Ginny, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ginny by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,268
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 772
Best rank ever
#631
1958
Peak year
1958
242 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,648
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Ginny

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

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Names with a curve like Ginny

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ginny, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ginny

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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