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Girl Names That Start With G

These are the 50 girl names that start with G, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.

All 50 names

  1. Gianna #33 5,634
  2. Grace #38 5,127
  3. Genesis #66 3,527
  4. Georgia #99 2,619
  5. Gabriella #105 2,545
  6. Genevieve #148 1,981
  7. Gemma #170 1,805
  8. Gracie #227 1,344
  9. Gia #287 1,069
  10. Gabriela #317 961
  11. Gwendolyn #360 848
  12. Giselle #382 803
  13. Gracelynn #442 698
  14. Gracelyn #466 659
  15. Goldie #621 469
  16. Gabrielle #632 459
  17. Gloria #654 437
  18. Gwen #725 384
  19. Greta #908 291
  20. Giuliana #914 287
  21. Guadalupe #1248 180
  22. Georgie #1359 162
  23. Georgiana #1417 153
  24. Geneva #1652 125
  25. Gisselle #1808 111
  26. Gina #2076 90
  27. Geraldine #2438 73
  28. Golda #2645 65
  29. Gladys #3211 49
  30. Gillian #3296 47
  31. Ginger #3296 47
  32. Georgette #3832 38
  33. Georgianna #3903 37
  34. Gretchen #4265 33
  35. Glenda #5917 20
  36. Gertrude #6546 17
  37. Gail #8362 12
  38. Garnet #10917 8
  39. Glenna #11932 7
  40. Germaine #13208 6
  41. Gale
  42. Gay
  43. Gayla
  44. Gayle
  45. Gearldine
  46. Gena
  47. Geri
  48. Gertie
  49. Gilda
  50. Gussie

Also starting with G, and now given almost only to boys: George, Gene, Gerry

Girl names that start with G in the 2025 data

G is the fifteenth most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 40,569 of them, 2.5% of every girl in the file. It has slipped from thirteenth place a decade ago, and its share has barely moved: 2.6% then, 2.5% now.

This list holds the 50 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Gianna, #33 with 5,634 girls in 2025. 4 of the 50 are in this year's top 100, and 40 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Three other names starting with G are left out — George, Gene and Gerry. Each reached the top 500 among girls at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a girl. Together they account for 33,227 of those 40,569 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Georgia, up from #229 in 2015 to #99 in 2025. Giselle has gone the other way, from #221 to #382. The shortest name here is Gay at 3 letters, the longest Georgianna at 10.

Questions about girl names that start with G

What is the most popular girl name that starts with G?

Gianna. 5,634 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #33 nationally.

How many girl names start with G?

50 have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 40,569 girls born in 2025 — 2.5% of the total — were given a name starting with G.

Are girl names that start with G getting more popular?

G is holding steady. It was thirteenth among first letters for girls a decade ago with 2.6% of births, and it is fifteenth in 2025 with 2.5%.

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