Given name
Ginette
“God is gracious”
Ginette is a variant of Gianna. In Italian use, Gianna carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ginette is a variant of Gianna. In Italian use, Gianna carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ginette is a variant of Gina. Gina has been associated with Italian and English naming traditions. In French use, Ginette is a diminutive of Geneviève. An origin associated with Geneviève is Celtic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In French usage, Ginette is a diminutive of Geneviève.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ginette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 881
- 0 boys · 881 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,514 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ginette’s family of names
In French usage, Ginette is a diminutive of Geneviève. Ginette has a related form in Gina. In English usage, Ginette has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jeannette.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ginette has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ginette
- Ginette NeveuFrench musician (1919–1949)
- Ginette LeclercFrench actress (1912-1992)
- Ginette RenoMusician, actressborn 1946
- Ginette DaleuCameroonian painter1977–2018
- Ginette GarcinFrench actress (1928–2010)
- Ginette HarrisonBritish mountain climber (1958-1999)
- Ginette Petitpas TaylorCanadian politicianborn 1965
- Ginette KolinkaFrench Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp survivor and witnessborn 1925
- Ginette BaudinFrench actress1921–1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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