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Gitty

#1,194 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gitty has been given to 3,715 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #1,194 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Gitty, 2025

1 in 17,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gitty: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gitty means

Gitty is a given name.

The naming story behind Gitty

Wikidata records Gitty as a given name. The entity identifier is Q101427464, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,715 girls were recorded with the name Gitty between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 193 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,194 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,488 in 2020 to #1,194 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,734 in 2015 to #1,194 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.

How common is Gitty?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,200
193 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,330
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,194
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,907 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gitty 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,907 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gitty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gittys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gitty was born before 2012 — so the typical Gitty is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,715
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (1,248).

Is Gitty 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
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+294
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+540
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (193)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,194
2025

Spellings of Gitty

Gitty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 83.9% against Gitty's 0.31%.

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 Gitty is used

Across 1910–2025, Gitty was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 4,953 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 25,000).

426 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,846
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 25,000

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

Gitty around the world

Where Gitty 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
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024

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

Gitty by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,194
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 294
Best rank ever
#1,194
2025
Peak year
2025
193 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,715
Count in 2025
193

Names similar to Gitty

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

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Names with a curve like Gitty

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

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Sibling names for Gitty

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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