Ginger
#3,296 for girls in 2025, 47 births · Last seen for boys in 1975 at #3,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1971 · 1,670 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 46,218since 1913
Ginger over time
Rank among girls' names. Ginger has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,296 | 47 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,278 | 49 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,064 | 93 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,807 | 112 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,679 | 125 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,513 | 148 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,405 | 168 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,664 | 134 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,385 | 174 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,567 | 138 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,392 | 154 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,528 | 131 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,463 | 134 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,425 | 134 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,585 | 117 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,617 | 109 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,573 | 107 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,405 | 122 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,577 | 99 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,531 | 100 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,394 | 116 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,138 | 155 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,154 | 153 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,175 | 146 | — | |
| 1989 | #995 | 173 | — | |
| 1988 | #824 | 221 | — | |
| 1987 | #766 | 235 | — | |
| 1986 | #639 | 289 | — | |
| 1985 | #580 | 336 | — | |
| 1984 | #476 | 431 | — | |
| 1983 | #407 | 528 | — | |
| 1982 | #346 | 683 | — | |
| 1981 | #329 | 720 | — | |
| 1980 | #324 | 751 | — | |
| 1979 | #315 | 758 | — | |
| 1978 | #244 | 995 | — | |
| 1977 | #259 | 952 | — | |
| 1976 | #226 | 1,079 | — | |
| 1975 | #225 | 1,076 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #198 | 1,281 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #202 | 1,271 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #210 | 1,317 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #187 | 1,670 | — | |
| 1970 | #226 | 1,381 | — | |
| 1969 | #235 | 1,276 | — | |
| 1968 | #236 | 1,191 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #244 | 1,161 | — | |
| 1966 | #247 | 1,148 | — | |
| 1965 | #257 | 1,110 | — | |
| 1964 | #258 | 1,183 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #253 | 1,225 | — | |
| 1962 | #261 | 1,185 | — | |
| 1961 | #280 | 1,083 | — | |
| 1960 | #266 | 1,137 | — | |
| 1959 | #266 | 1,091 | — | |
| 1958 | #292 | 953 | — | |
| 1957 | #276 | 1,005 | — | |
| 1956 | #280 | 973 | — | |
| 1955 | #301 | 845 | — | |
| 1954 | #290 | 859 | — | |
| 1953 | #284 | 860 | — | |
| 1952 | #266 | 903 | — | |
| 1951 | #267 | 866 | — | |
| 1950 | #303 | 657 | — | |
| 1949 | #300 | 665 | — | |
| 1948 | #317 | 600 | — | |
| 1947 | #302 | 684 | — | |
| 1946 | #301 | 596 | — | |
| 1945 | #369 | 362 | — | |
| 1944 | #398 | 317 | — | |
| 1943 | #412 | 313 | — | |
| 1942 | #491 | 229 | — | |
| 1941 | #459 | 226 | — | |
| 1940 | #474 | 202 | — | |
| 1939 | #520 | 165 | — | |
| 1938 | #586 | 138 | — | |
| 1937 | #529 | 156 | — | |
| 1936 | #469 | 188 | — | |
| 1935 | #592 | 120 | — | |
| 1934 | #768 | 76 | — | |
| 1933 | #858 | 61 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,320 | 31 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,287 | 32 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,320 | 33 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,892 | 19 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,897 | 20 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,587 | 27 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,414 | 32 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,504 | 30 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,244 | 41 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,520 | 29 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,730 | 24 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,298 | 36 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,375 | 33 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,649 | 24 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,600 | 25 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,923 | 18 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,368 | 13 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,800 | 18 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ginger! It came in at #3,187, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ginger is popular in 1940
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#251 · 1 in 1,551
- Arkansas#292 · 1 in 1,912
- California#324 · 1 in 2,628
- Louisiana#339 · 1 in 2,340
- Mississippi#342 · 1 in 2,827
Best ever in a state: #64 in Wyoming, 1967.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #251 | 13 | 1 in 1,551 |
| Arkansas | #292 | 10 | 1 in 1,912 |
| California | #324 | 19 | 1 in 2,628 |
| Louisiana | #339 | 10 | 1 in 2,340 |
| Mississippi | #342 | 8 | 1 in 2,827 |
| North Carolina | #346 | 11 | 1 in 3,424 |
| Minnesota | #359 | 5 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Tennessee | #382 | 7 | 1 in 4,024 |
| Michigan | #388 | 8 | 1 in 5,466 |
| Indiana | #400 | 5 | 1 in 5,372 |
| Texas | #406 | 20 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Georgia | #458 | 6 | 1 in 5,293 |
| Illinois | #527 | 7 | 1 in 8,037 |
| Pennsylvania | #542 | 7 | 1 in 10,714 |
| Ohio | #547 | 5 | 1 in 10,541 |
| New York | #660 | 6 | 1 in 14,952 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ginger
- 220 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #3,296)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #3,296)
- 677 spots since 2015 (#2,619 → #3,296)
- Biggest jump: 462 spots in 1933 (#1,320 → #858)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 1990 (#995 → #1,175)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1971 at #187 (1,670 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1933–1989
- Highest: 1 in 996 girls born in 1971 were named Ginger (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,197 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.5% of all girls named Ginger (11,780) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 111 | #1,600 (1918) | #2,166 |
| 1920s | 291 | #1,244 (1924) | #1,546 |
| 1930s | 1,000 | #469 (1936) | #825 |
| 1940s | 4,194 | #300 (1949) | #382 |
| 1950s | 9,012 | #266 (1959) | #283 |
| 1960s | 11,699 | #235 (1969) | #254 |
| 1970s | 11,780 | #187 (1971) | #229 |
| 1980s | 4,367 | #324 (1980) | #569 |
| 1990s | 1,227 | #1,138 (1992) | #1,383 |
| 2000s | 1,393 | #1,385 (2007) | #1,503 |
| 2010s | 862 | #1,513 (2010) | #2,337 |
| 2020s | 282 | #3,274 (2023) | #3,339 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ginger in 1940
Top girls' names in 1940
More about 1940
girls
1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 5,661 of them was named Ginger, which outranked 90.6% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).