Gypsy
The girl's name Gypsy has been in the national records since 1891, with 1,501 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 1,200 Gypsys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gypsy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,501
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 3,735th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1891
How old the living Gypsys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,501 babies given the name since 1891, about 1,200 are alive — 78 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.
Where the name comes from
A (in Early Modern English roughly), itself an, 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gypsys
- Gypsy Rose Lee (1911–1970)American burlesque performer, actress and author
- Gypsy Abbott (1896–1952)Silent film actress
People named Gypsy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gypsy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gypsy is most concentrated in California (6.6×), Texas (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular girls’ names the year Gypsy peaked:
Gypsy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Gypsy | 198 | 1,072nd |
| France girls | Gypsy | 10 | 1,731st |
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.
Try it on yourself
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.