How Many People Are Named Ginny?

6,570

people named Ginny are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 52,022 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,648 babies named Ginny in Social Security records from 1918 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,156

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,760

See the top 100

Peak Year

1958

242 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JIN-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Diminutive of VIRGINIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Ginny in English. Counting Ginny and these spellings together, about 7,941 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Ginny in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Ginny alive today is about 51 years old, and 46% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 41 and 66 in 2025.

Under 30 871
13.3%
30 to 59 3,005
45.7%
60 and over 2,694
41%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Ginny first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 1958, to 242 babies. In 2025, 48 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Ginny has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #631, in 1958. In 2025 it ranked #3,268.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,268
Best rank#631 (1958)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#837 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Ginny alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Ginny were born in California than in any other state: about 543 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ginny was given 1.8 times as often in Texas, 1.7 times in California and 1.7 times in Ohio.

California 543
Texas 395
Ohio 289
New York 253
Illinois 247
Pennsylvania 190
Florida 139
North Carolina 134
Georgia 133
Michigan 122
Indiana 107
New Jersey 78
Tennessee 70
Kentucky 53
Missouri 53
Minnesota 49
Alabama 40
Washington 39
Wisconsin 37
Oklahoma 36
Massachusetts 35
Virginia 31
Kansas 28
Iowa 26
Louisiana 17
Nebraska 11
Utah 11
Maryland 10
Mississippi 9
South Carolina 8
Connecticut 8
Oregon 5
Colorado 4
District of Columbia 4

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