Gidget

Where Gidget comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Gidget.

Gidget through the years
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #4,960 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Around this time: Gidget
    TV, 1965 · Source
  3. 1966
    Peak, #717
    187 babies named Gidget, the most in any year.
  4. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,402.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Gidget in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.