How Many People Are Named Gittel?

1,459

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

About 1 in 234,259 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,479 babies named Gittel in Social Security records from 1963 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,274

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,615

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Peak Year

2024

79 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Yiddish
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "good" in Yiddish.

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Gittel alive today is about 18 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 26 in 2025.

Under 30 1,171
80.3%
30 to 59 284
19.5%
60 and over 4
0.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Gittel first appears in the records in 1963 and was given most often in 2024, to 79 babies. In 2025, 45 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1963 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Gittel has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,334, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #3,415.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,415
Best rank#2,334 (2024)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#3,521 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Gittel were born in New York than in any other state: about 915 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gittel was given 12 times as often in New York and 8.2 times in New Jersey.

New York 915
New Jersey 260

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