Meaning not yet researched.
Ginny: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #631 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #631 in 1958; #3,268 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ginny in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,268 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #631.
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Ginny: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #631 in 1958 · most girls in one year: 242 (1958).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Ginny, making it the 3,268th most common girls’ name of the year, down 240 places from #3,028 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 54 girls named Ginny in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #631, reached in 1958. That year also had the most girls given the name: 242. For comparison, it was #6,108 in 2015 and #1,066 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ginny in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 7,648 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,517 babies named Ginny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 406 US girls were named Ginny; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gianni (18,916 babies since 1880) and Gionni (2,049 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Genny, Ginia and Ginneh are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Genny (1,299), Ginia (79), Ginneh (6), Ginney (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ginny in the open dataset we use.
Ginny 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 | 48 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,062 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,971 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,682 | — | — |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,102 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,964 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,267 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,256 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,177 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,685 | — | — |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,939 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,315 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,401 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,158 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,849 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,006 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1984 | 108 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1983 | 116 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1982 | 149 | #991 | — | — |
| 1981 | 148 | #987 | — | — |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1979 | 155 | #948 | — | — |
| 1978 | 145 | #960 | — | — |
| 1977 | 142 | #974 | — | — |
| 1976 | 128 | #994 | — | — |
| 1975 | 138 | #929 | — | — |
| 1974 | 137 | #920 | — | — |
| 1973 | 138 | #905 | — | — |
| 1972 | 147 | #870 | — | — |
| 1971 | 154 | #871 | — | — |
| 1970 | 125 | #999 | — | — |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1967 | 105 | #997 | — | — |
| 1966 | 92 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1965 | 113 | #969 | — | — |
| 1964 | 173 | #789 | — | — |
| 1963 | 196 | #732 | — | — |
| 1962 | 200 | #730 | — | — |
| 1961 | 210 | #716 | — | — |
| 1960 | 230 | #669 | — | — |
| 1959 | 233 | #657 | — | — |
| 1958 | 242 | #631 | — | — |
| 1957 | 229 | #649 | — | — |
| 1956 | 122 | #910 | — | — |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1954 | 102 | #959 | — | — |
| 1953 | 97 | #970 | — | — |
| 1952 | 108 | #890 | — | — |
| 1951 | 95 | #953 | — | — |
| 1950 | 75 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1949 | 81 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1948 | 132 | #735 | — | — |
| 1947 | 135 | #738 | — | — |
| 1946 | 147 | #652 | — | — |
| 1945 | 119 | #683 | — | — |
| 1944 | 80 | #851 | — | — |
| 1943 | 75 | #899 | — | — |
| 1942 | 65 | #976 | — | — |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,117 | — | — |
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).