Meaning not yet researched.
Ginger: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #187 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #187 in 1971; #3,308 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ginger in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,308 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #187.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Ginger: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #187 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 1,670 (1971).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Ginger, making it the 3,308th most common girls’ name of the year, up 226 places from #3,534 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 44 girls named Ginger in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #187, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,670. For comparison, it was #2,630 in 2015 and #303 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ginger in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 46,260 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 11,809 babies named Ginger.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 518 US girls were named Ginger; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Ginger in the open dataset we use.
Ginger is listed as a nickname for Virginia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2009 | 168 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 2007 | 174 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2005 | 154 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2004 | 131 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2003 | 134 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2002 | 134 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1996 | 99 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1992 | 155 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1991 | 153 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1990 | 146 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1989 | 173 | #997 | — | — |
| 1988 | 221 | #826 | — | — |
| 1987 | 235 | #766 | — | — |
| 1986 | 289 | #640 | — | — |
| 1985 | 336 | #580 | — | — |
| 1984 | 431 | #476 | — | — |
| 1983 | 528 | #407 | — | — |
| 1982 | 683 | #346 | — | — |
| 1981 | 720 | #329 | — | — |
| 1980 | 751 | #324 | — | — |
| 1979 | 758 | #315 | — | — |
| 1978 | 995 | #245 | — | — |
| 1977 | 952 | #259 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,079 | #226 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,076 | #225 | 8 | #4,078 |
| 1974 | 1,281 | #198 | 6 | #4,857 |
| 1973 | 1,271 | #202 | 7 | #4,239 |
| 1972 | 1,317 | #210 | 8 | #3,757 |
| 1971 | 1,670 | #187 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,381 | #226 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,276 | #235 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,191 | #236 | 5 | #4,349 |
| 1967 | 1,161 | #244 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,148 | #247 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,110 | #257 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,183 | #258 | 8 | #3,125 |
| 1963 | 1,225 | #253 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,185 | #261 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,083 | #280 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,137 | #266 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,091 | #266 | — | — |
| 1958 | 953 | #292 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,005 | #276 | — | — |
| 1956 | 973 | #280 | — | — |
| 1955 | 845 | #301 | — | — |
| 1954 | 859 | #290 | — | — |
| 1953 | 860 | #284 | — | — |
| 1952 | 903 | #266 | — | — |
| 1951 | 866 | #267 | — | — |
| 1950 | 657 | #303 | — | — |
| 1949 | 665 | #300 | — | — |
| 1948 | 600 | #317 | — | — |
| 1947 | 684 | #302 | — | — |
| 1946 | 596 | #301 | — | — |
| 1945 | 362 | #369 | — | — |
| 1944 | 317 | #398 | — | — |
| 1943 | 313 | #412 | — | — |
| 1942 | 229 | #492 | — | — |
| 1941 | 226 | #460 | — | — |
| 1940 | 202 | #475 | — | — |
| 1939 | 165 | #520 | — | — |
| 1938 | 138 | #587 | — | — |
| 1937 | 156 | #529 | — | — |
| 1936 | 188 | #469 | — | — |
| 1935 | 120 | #595 | — | — |
| 1934 | 76 | #769 | — | — |
| 1933 | 61 | #860 | — | — |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,391 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).