Girish
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Girish has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2009, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Girish, 2015
1 in 617,000
Girish over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Girish?
Girish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Girish sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Girish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Girishs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Girish was born before 2009 — so the typical Girish is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (13).
Is Girish 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (7)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Girish
Girish is not the most common spelling — Krish is, with 73.7% against Girish's 0.52%.
Girish around the world
Where Girish 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 & Wales1997–2002#3,225in 2002
- South Australia1987–1987#464in 1987
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Girish by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Girish
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Girish
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.