Girl · French
Ginette
Say it: zhee-NET
Meaning
A pet form of Geneviève.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in France and Quebec in the 1930s–40s and now very rare.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 881 babies given this name since 1940
- At its height in 1959, about 1 in 59,500 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Ginette Reno, Québécois singer
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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