Gift
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GIFT
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Gift is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “a gift, present”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Gift mean?
English: English word name
“a gift, present”
Used especially in southern African and Nigerian Christian families to mark a child as a gift from God.
Is Gift a girl's or a boy's name?
Gift is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gift in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Gift, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Gift in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Gift in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 8 | #2,406 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
How popular is Gift in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 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, 11 girls in the US were named Gift, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Gift in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gift in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Gift
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Gift: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gift, updated 20 October 2026.