Ginny
Pronounced JH IH1 N IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1958
- 107 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Ginny?
Ginny is a girls' name, and first appears in 1918. It has been given to 8,384 children — the 1,560th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 384 births across the past decade, against a peak of 263 in a single year. That peak was in 1958.
Ginnie is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Ginny and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Ginnie
Nicknames
Ginny is itself a short form of Virginia.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- JH IH1 N IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Ginny
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Ginny
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Ginny?
- Ginny ranks 1,560th among girls' names in US records, with 8,384 births since 1918. Over the past decade it accounts for 384.
- Is Ginny a unisex name?
- No. Ginny is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Ginny most popular?
- 1958, when 263 children were given the name. It has been in use for 107 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Ginny spelled?
- Ginnie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.