Feminine dossier · first seen 1913

Ginger

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Ginger
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 97.4% from peak

Peak era

1971

Peak rank proxy

1,670

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1913Peak 19712024

Peak year

1971

Decline from peak

97.4%

2024

All-time

46,170

Ginger once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1971, when 1,670 girls were named Ginger.

In 2024, only 43 girls were given the name.

Down 97.4% from its peak.

All told, about 46,170 Americans have been named Ginger and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1913.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 97.4% from peak

19711,670 girls named Ginger

202443 girls named Ginger

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