girls:
4.3k births since 1940
#2600 (55th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1940
#4159 (46th percentile)
The name Gigi is the #4,159 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,340 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 46.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,600 (54.5% percentile) for all time with 4,340 births since 1940.
Gigi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (first recorded for girls in 1940). Birth data for Gigi is available in 83 out of the 84 years between 1940 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Gigi reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 32.0% percentile (ranked #525) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 134 births per million (ranked 32.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gigi ranks #893 for girls (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 25.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gigi".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gigi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Gigi is pronounced as JEE-jee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEE-JEE, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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