Boy Names Starting With G

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin G boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

How common G names are

22 of the 1,000 most-registered boy names of 2025 start with G, and together they account for 2.7% of the births in that list — the 16th-largest share among the 26 initials. The letter's #1 name, Gabriel, holds overall rank #37 with 6,569 births; its 50th and last name, Ghaith, was recorded 96 times at #1,702.

That 2.7% is G's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 22-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.

G names across the decades

Counting only names inside each snapshot's top 200, the G tally for boys runs 13 in 1955, 11 in 1965, 7 in 1975, 8 in 1985, 6 in 1995, 7 in 2005, 8 in 2015 — highest in 1955, lowest in 1995. The leading name was Gary (#12) in 1955 and Gabriel (#22) in 2015. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 7 G names, led by Gabriel at #37. 3 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: Gary, Gregory, and Gabriel. 1 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appears in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: George.

G names held 5.7% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 3.5% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 3.1%. The first-letter trends guide sets G's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.

Faded and new

The snapshot lists hold 7 G names for boys that the 2025 top 50 does not: Geoffrey (1975, 1985, best #167 in 1975), Greg (1965, best #105 in 1965), Glen (1955, 1965, best #131 in 1955), Gene (1955, 1965, best #152 in 1955), Garry (1955, best #140 in 1955), Gerard (1955, best #179 in 1955), and Gregg (1955, best #198 in 1955). The years in parentheses are the snapshot years whose top 200 included the name; the most recent of them to chart is Geoffrey, in 1985.

In the other direction, 33 of the 50 names on the 2025 list are absent from every snapshot top 200: the first 12 by rank are Gael (#86), Griffin (#222), Gideon (#337), Grady (#373), Gunner (#506), Gianni (#524), Gunnar (#612), Gustavo (#625), Gerardo (#678), Guillermo (#902), Gian (#956), and Grey (#1,014), and the remaining 21 follow in the table above.

Read both lists against the depths that produce them — 200 ranks per snapshot year, 50 names for G in 2025 with the last at #1,702: a name missing from a snapshot may sit below rank 200 that year, and a name missing from the 2025 list may sit below Ghaith; the committed files do not say.

Shape of the list

Medium spellings of five to seven letters account for 34 of the 50 names on the 2025 list (Gabriel, for one); 10 are short at four letters or fewer (Gael, for one), and 6 run to eight letters or more (Giovanni, for one). The longest spellings on the 2025 list, at 9 letters, are Guillermo and Giancarlo; the shortest, at 3, are Gio, Gus, and Guy.

28 of the 50 names rank past #1,000, beyond the top-1,000 list the generator's 2025 era samples; the rest divide into 3 inside the top 100, 9 at ranks 101–500, and 10 at 501–1,000.

2 names on this list also appear on the 2025 girls' G list, each ranked separately per sex by the SSA: Gianni (#524 for boys, #1,351 for girls) and Genesis (#1,305 for boys, #66 for girls). Second letters on the 2025 list number 8; i leads them, opening 14 of the 50 names (Gi-), with Gr- (11) next.

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Other letters

Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with G.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.