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The first name 
Ginny

Ginny is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Ginny meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ginny is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Ginny. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ginny is #4,119 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ginny.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ginny

Ginny -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Ginny, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 33 states are home to women and girls named Ginny. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Ginny living in one state or another. If your name is Ginny and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Ohio, which has the most people named Ginny relative to the population, you still have to ask 20,690 women and girls their names before you hear Ginny as an answer just once.

Ginny has 5 letters 
and begins with a G

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Ginny is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ginny

If your name is Ginny and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Ginny

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ginny, you can simply say:

Goat

Igloo

Nut

Nut

Yoyo

This is how the name Ginny is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ginny in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ginny

Ginny

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ginny

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ginny is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

G
I
N
N
Y

Have you ever waved the name Ginny

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

G
I
N
N
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ginny sounds like this: