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Gypsy

#9,070 in 2025Girls' name

Egyptian

Gypsy has been given to 1,501 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #9,070 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Gypsy, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gypsy: meaning, origin, and history

Egyptian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gypsy means

Gypsy means “Egyptian”, associated with Egipcian.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A clipping of Gyptian (in Early Modern English roughly /ˈd͡ʒɪp.sɪ.æn/), itself an apheretic form of Egyptian, from Middle English Egipcian (“Egyptian”) (rarely Gypcian), from Old French egyptien, from Latin aegyptianus, from aegyptius (“Egypt”), because when Roma first appeared in England in the sixteenth century, they were wrongly believed to have come from Egypt. The Albanian evgjit, Greek γύφτος (gýftos), Italian gitano, Spanish gitano and Turkish Kıpti have the same origin. Doublet of Egyptian and Copt. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Rom (words related to the Romani people's autonyms) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Gypsy is used in English.

Gypsy comes through Middle English Egipcian, Old French egyptien and Latin aegyptianus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gyptian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gypsy is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,501 girls were recorded with the name Gypsy between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,260 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,743 in 2020 to #9,070 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,186 in 2015 to #9,070 in 2025.

How common is Gypsy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,070
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gypsy 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gypsy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gypsys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gypsy was born before 1981 — so the typical Gypsy is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,107
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (214).

Is Gypsy 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
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,327
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,884
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.2%
Peak was 2020 (39)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,260
1891

Where Gypsy is used

Across 1910–2025, Gypsy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 414,965 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Gypsy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gypsy around the world

Where Gypsy 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
    1998–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1972–1974
    #1,731
    in 1974
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #403
    in 2013

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

Gypsy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,327
Best rank ever
#1,260
1891
Peak year
2020
39 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,501
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Gypsy

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

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Sibling names for Gypsy

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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