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Gina vs Ginelle

American parents have registered 153,461 Ginas since 1880, against 512 Ginelles. Gina is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gina against Ginelle, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gina Ginelle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Gina had 125 and Ginelle had 10.

Side by side

  Gina Ginelle
Total US births 153,461512
Most in one year 6,37221
Babies in 2025 906
Estimated living today 140,000500
Median age today 5335
Peak year 19671987
Best rank 54th girls3,983rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,076th13,208th
First recorded 18801963
Girls / boys 153,057 / 404512 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ginas alive today are over 53; half the Ginelles are over 35. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gina and Ginelle.