Gatsby
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- GATS-bee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,190 for boys
Gatsby is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).
What does Gatsby mean?
English: from the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
From F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, whose hero Jay Gatsby was born James Gatz.
Is Gatsby a girl's or a boy's name?
Gatsby is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gatsby in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,190th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 160,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Gatsby, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 2016, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the boys named Gatsby in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gatsby in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,231 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
Names like Gatsby
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru, Chozen, Kairo, Kaizen, Huxley, Kenzo, Dutton, Legacy, Kasai, Ledger, Wylder, Ozzy
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gatsby: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gatsby, updated 20 October 2026.