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Gargi

Girl · GAR-gee · Sanskrit

Gargi is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “descendant of Garga”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Gargi mean?

Sanskrit

“descendant of Garga”

Gargi Vachaknavi is an ancient woman philosopher who questions the sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

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GAR-gee

Is Gargi a girl's or a boy's name?

Gargi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Gargi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Gargi, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.

Half of all the girls named Gargi in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 16 in 20242025
Gargi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
202416#6,928
20230–
202210#9,674
202115#7,245
202012#8,401
201913#8,134
20187#12,459
201710#9,939
20160–
201511#9,476
201411#9,512
20136#14,577
201211#9,706
20110–
201012#9,227
20096#15,236
20088#12,574
20077#13,918
20067#13,601
20055#16,455
20040–
20035#15,777
20025#15,426
20016#13,514
20000–
19990–
19987#11,132

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