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Ginger

As a girl's name, Ginger traces back to English, where it is understood to mean "English, from the spice/plant name". It had its heyday in the 1970s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

EnglishEnglish, from the spice/plant name
EtymologyAlso a nickname for red hair
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
111
1920s
291
1930s
1,000
1940s
4,194
1950s
9,012
1960s
11,714
1970s
11,813
1980s
4,364
1990s
1,226
2000s
1,391
2010s
743
Peaked in the 1970s · 45,859 total U.S. births since 1900