Ginny
Ginny is a girl's name that peaked in 1958, when it was the 631st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,249th. About 6,600 Ginnys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ginny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,648
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 631st
- Rank in 2025
- 3,249th
- First recorded
- 1918
How old the living Ginnys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,648 babies given the name since 1918, about 6,600 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 590 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ginnys
- Ginny Duenkel (born 1947)American swimmer
- Ginny Simms (1915–1994)American singer and actress
People named Ginny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ginny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ginny is most concentrated in Ohio (2.0×), California (1.7×), Texas (1.6×), Illinois (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular girls’ names the year Ginny peaked:
Ginny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Ginny | 232 | 1,491st |
| France girls | Ginny | 55 | 2,684th |
| Scotland girls | Ginny | 7 | 638th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Ginny against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.