Baby names starting with G: girls and boys

The most used girls' names beginning with G in 2025

G is a small letter with one very large name. The ONS counted 4,502 girls given a G name in 2025 across 121 spellings, and Grace and Gracie together take 1,848 of them. That is 41 per cent of the letter in two rows. Below them the numbers fall steeply: Georgia at 280 is already outside the top 170 for all girls' names.

The most used boys' names beginning with G in 2025

On the boys' side the concentration is the most extreme in the alphabet. George alone was given to 3,082 boys, which is 52 per cent of every boy in England and Wales given a G name. No other letter has a single name carrying half its total. After George and Gabriel the list thins immediately, and much of what follows is a cluster of Punjabi Sikh names built on the element gur.

Which G names are rising and which are falling

Climbing

Gracie is the letter's climber, up 19 places to 84th and marked by the ONS as a new entry to the top 100. That is the only positive published move for G in 2025. The ten-year column tells a different story for the same name: Gracie is down 20 places since 2015, so a strong single year has not undone a decade of decline.

Slipping

Grace fell 2 places and is down 13 since 2015. George fell 1 place and is down 3 over ten years, which for a name that has sat in the top ten throughout is close to no movement at all. Gabriel fell 6 places and is down 15 since 2015. With only two G names in each top 100, that is the entire published record of movement for the letter.

What the published change columns cannot tell you

Everything else in the G list is below rank 100 and has no published change. Georgia, Gabriella, Gia, Georgie, Gianna, Georgina, Grayson, Giovanni and the Gur- names all have exact counts and nothing more. The Sikh names in particular sit in a part of the list where year-to-year counts move by tens of babies, so single-year comparisons would be unreliable even if the ONS published them.

How big a letter G really is

G is eighteenth for girls and nineteenth for boys by babies named, and only 121 different girls' names begin with it, the seventh-smallest set in the alphabet. The letter has almost no middle: it has two or three names everybody knows, a short cluster of Georg- variants, and then a long tail of names given to fewer than a hundred babies each.

The Gur- group deserves its own note because it is the letter's growth area. Gurbaaz at 86, Gurfateh at 70, Gurnawab at 53 and Gurniwaz at 42 are separate rows in the 2025 full list, all sharing the Sikh element gur, meaning the Guru. Counted together they are a larger presence in G than any name except George and Gabriel.

Further G names in the published 2025 list

The ONS full list does not stop at the tables above, and the counts stay exact all the way down. For girls the next names in order of use are Gaia at 77, Gabrielle at 66, Gracie-Mae at 59, Giulia at 50, Gloria at 49, Gurnaaz at 43, Gwen at 34, Georgiana at 33, Gurbani at 31, Gursanjh at 30, Gwendolyn at 23, Giovanna at 22. For boys they are Giorgio at 38, Gavin at 33, Gideon at 31, Gruffydd at 31, Gethin at 30, Griffin at 29, Giulio at 24, Guy at 23, Ghaith at 21, Gabriele at 20, Gwilym at 20, Gregory at 19. Each figure is the exact number of babies registered with that exact spelling during 2025, taken from the ONS full-list table rather than from the top 100. The letter carries 121 different girls' names and 148 different boys' names in the published data altogether, and any name given to two or fewer babies has been removed from it.

Choosing a G name: what the data changes

If you want a G name that is not George or Grace, you are choosing from a genuinely short list, and most of what remains is a variant of George or Georgina. Genevieve at 83 and Goldie at 89 are the clearest examples of an uncommon G name that is still a real name with a documented history rather than a modern coinage. Check how the initial sounds with your surname too, since G is soft in Gianna and hard in Grace.