Given name & surname

Gini

Gini is a surname from Italian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Gini comes from Italian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1942. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Gini through the years

Babies since 1880
505
0 boys · 505 girls
Most popular year
1958
27 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0510151960198020002025Highest share 19640.0
Gini in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1942–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 619 as a first name in 2020; 150 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Gini’s family of names

In Greek usage, Gini as a surname is a transliteration of Γκίνη.

Walk Gini’s family in the name graph

GiniGineaGineeGinyGinieGyniΓκίνη

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 6

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

If you love Gini, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

English · Nature

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Italian

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Italian

Annese

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French · Literary

Janine

“God is gracious”

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>99% girls

Hebrew

Jeanie

“God is gracious”

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>99% girls

Italian

Betti

“my God is bountiful”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

French

Cerise

“resembling the cherry”

21RareRising fast

>99% girls

French

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“a merrymaker; of the festive party” · “a singer”

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>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Gini’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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