Gigi

What Gigi means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gigi yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #460 vs #2,822 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gigi?

US: Rising: up from #3767 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4103 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1962, when 271 girls got the name (#608 that year). First in the US records in 1940.

How common

• About 1 in 26,788 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,911 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,491 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.09 per 1,000 girls), CA (0.07 per 1,000 girls), TX (0.03 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Gigi is #2822 in the US and #460 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gigi were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Gigi

Girls

• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Josephine#53Feminine form of Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Sylvie#282Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,175 in 2015, #282 in 2025
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Noelle#202Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #202 vs #705 in 2025
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*

For a brother

• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Noel#478French, meaning “birthday of the Lord”^*
• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Marcel#730Editor’s note Up from #771 in 2015 to #730 in 2025 in the US
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gigi’s. Rank is US 2025.