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Gina vs Gini

American parents have registered 153,461 Ginas since 1880, against 505 Ginis. Gina is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gina against Gini, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gina Gini

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1944, when Gina had 48 and Gini had 6.

Side by side

  Gina Gini
Total US births 153,461505
Most in one year 6,37227
Babies in 2025 90under 5
Estimated living today 140,000440
Median age today 5361
Peak year 19671958
Best rank 54th girls2,167th girls
Rank in 2025 2,076thunranked
First recorded 18801942
Girls / boys 153,057 / 404505 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ginis alive today are over 61; half the Ginas are over 53. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gina and Gini.