Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word ginger, referring to the spice or the reddish-brown color, and it can also serve as a diminutive of Virginia, as in the case of actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (1911–1995), who helped popularize it.
20062006: 138 births, rank #1,567
2007: 174 births, rank #1,385
2008: 134 births, rank #1,664
2009: 168 births, rank #1,405
2010: 148 births, rank #1,513
20112011: 125 births, rank #1,679
2012: 112 births, rank #1,807
2013: 93 births, rank #2,064
2014: 80 births, rank #2,304
2015: 68 births, rank #2,619
20162016: 56 births, rank #2,966
2017: 62 births, rank #2,744
2018: 61 births, rank #2,782
2019: 57 births, rank #2,891
2020: 47 births, rank #3,281
20212021: 46 births, rank #3,390
2022: 49 births, rank #3,278
2023: 49 births, rank #3,274
2024: 44 births, rank #3,516
20252025: 47 births, rank #3,296
Ginger moved from #826 to #997 for girls between 1988 and 1989. Its highest annual birth count came in 1971, with 1,670 births.