Gino
Masculine
Gino is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 13,145 boys against 12 girls since 1880.
Gino is Italian affection made portable: the tail end of longer names like Luigino and Ambrogino, worn down by generations of family use until it stood on its own. It crossed the Atlantic with Italian immigration and has been in American records for well over a century without ever going away. Two syllables, four letters, and a soft opening consonant that makes the whole name glide.
How old is the name Gino?
Gino first appears in US birth records in 1907 — 118 years ago. The typical Gino alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 11,000 people named Gino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gino most popular?
Gino peaked in 1965, reaching #566 nationally. Today it ranks #1217, 651 places below that high. See the whole 1965 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Luigi to Gino
The story of Gino
Italian has always loved shrinking names as a form of warmth, and Gino is the residue of that habit: the last two syllables of Luigino, Ambrogino, Giorgino, kept and used alone. By the nineteenth century it was being given as a name in its own right across Italy, no longer requiring a fuller form on the birth record. It reached the United States with the great wave of Italian emigration that began in the late 1800s, which is why it still shows its deepest roots in California, New York and Pennsylvania — the places those families settled. It has stayed on American rolls quietly ever since, never fashionable, never absent.
Meaning
Italian short form of names ending in -gino; its literal sense depends on the longer name behind it
The -ino ending is the Italian diminutive, from Latin -inus, and carries the sense of 'little' or 'dear'. So Luigino is 'little Luigi', Ambrogino 'little Ambrogio', Giorgino 'little Giorgio' — and Gino is what survives when the front of those names falls away. Gino itself is not a word with a meaning of its own; it is an ending that became a name.
How the name formed
- Luigi
- Luigino
- Gino
Related forms: Gino · Gino · Gina · Luigino · Ambrogino · Giorgino
Pronouncing Gino
JEE-noh
Soft g, as in Italian — the same sound that starts Gina and Gianni. Both syllables are short and even, with a light stress on the first.
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1907
- Most boys named
- 1992262 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #566reached in 1965
- Change vs 2023
- +9.9%166 in 2025, from 151
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Gino in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gino in Italian — same name
- Gino in Spanish — same name
- Gina in Italian — related form
- Luigino in Italian — related form
- Ambrogino in Italian — related form
- Giorgino in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Pennsylvania.
Ginos among us
people named Gino are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 10,290 born in 2025 was named Gino
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Milburn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gino's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Milburn climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Milburn's path sketches the road Gino is walking now.
Gino sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Gino is headed
Gino should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Gino beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gino in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short and phonetically transparent: four letters, two syllables, nothing to spell out twice.
- Works unchanged in Italian, Spanish and English, so it travels without being translated.
- More than a century of continuous use in American records, without the sharp rise and fall that dates a name to one decade.
- Already a diminutive, so it needs no nickname — the affectionate form and the formal form are the same word.
- Uncommon enough that a child will most likely be the only Gino in the school, while still being a name adults recognize.
- The soft g trips people up. Expect a share of "GHEE-no" from readers who see the g before an i and guess wrong, and a lifetime of gentle corrections.
- It reads as distinctly Italian, which is a gift if that is your family's story and simply a fact to be aware of if it isn't.
- There is no longer, formal version on the paperwork unless you choose one — Luigi, Eugenio, Giorgio — so Gino carries every occasion, from a passport to a nickname.
- "Gino's" is a common name for pizzerias and delis in the US, which means the name is familiar to most ears, sometimes by that route first.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ginos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,000 people named Gino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Gino in 2025?
- Gino ranks #1217 among US boy names in 2025, with 166 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gino?
- About 1 in every 10,290 US boys born in 2025 was named Gino — 166 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gino with classmates?
- Gino will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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