Name meaning & stats
Ginger
Ginger means “ginger (spice, or red hair)” (English origin). 44,858 US babies since 1940, peak 1971.
What it means
“ginger (spice, or red hair)”
EnglishWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1971
44,858 US babies were named Ginger between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Ginger (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1971)