How rare is the name Ginger?

37,956 people in the United States have the first name Ginger, about 1 in 7,957. It ranks #1,087 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GINGER

#1,087

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
37,956
About
1 in 7,957
This common or more
71.2%
Who bears it

Of the 37,956 people named Ginger, 86.1% reported their origin as White, 4% as two or more races and 4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ginger peaked in 1971, when 1,670 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19132025
Peak year
1971
Births that year
1,670
In 2025*
47 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 46,260 babies have been given the name since 1913. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ginger by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #426. The largest share of babies named Ginger, 39.9%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#3,874111
1920s#2,719291
1930s#1,2351,000
1940s#6584,194
1950s#5269,012
1960s#47911,712
1970s#42611,809
1980s#8894,367
1990s#2,3521,227
2000s#2,6341,393
2010s#3,930862
2020s#5,869282
Greatest Generation 1901–270.8%
Silent Generation 1928–455.8%
Baby boom 1946–6437.6%
Generation X 1965–8039.9%
Millennials 1981–969.8%
Generation Z 1997–124.6%
2013 and later1.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ginger is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ginger has been most common in Tennessee (2.3×), Alabama (2.2×), and Oklahoma (2.1×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.16×).

41,851 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Ginger

#1,085 Beau · 38,089#1,086 Elmer · 38,051#1,088 Araceli · 37,919#1,089 Jeannette · 37,909

Also a last name

As a last name, Ginger ranks #22,036 of 156,621, with 1,202 people. See Ginger as a last name

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