Gidget
Gidget is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 720th, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1966187 births
- Best rank
- #720in 1966
- Since 1946
- 1,586people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,586 girls have been named Gidget in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1966, with 187 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 187 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1960s alone account for 44%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1966, its biggest year
Gidget was the 720th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1966 were Lisa, Kimberly, Mary, Michelle and Karen. See all of 1966.
Names that rose and fell with Gidget
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tonjapeak 1967
- Marniepeak 1969
- Tamathapeak 1968
- Tracypeak 1970
- Tracipeak 1970
- Traceypeak 1970
- Mechellepeak 1968
- Traciepeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.