girls:
7 births since 1973
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
29 births since 1988
#4557 (1st percentile)
overall:
36 births since 1973
#7703 (0th percentile)
The name Gin is the #7,703 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,557 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1973.
Gin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Gin is available in 6 out of the 47 years between 1973 and 2019 (5 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Gin has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2019, 100.0% of babies named Gin were boys. Interestingly, until around 1988, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1973 to 1987), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1988 to 2019).
For boys, Gin reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #918) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Gin reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #738) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gin".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Gin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Gin is pronounced as jihn, which has 1 syllables.
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