Gifty
Gifty is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Empress Gifty, Ghanaian musician Gifty Acheampong, Ghanaian footballer Gifty Addy, Ghanaian sprinter Gifty Afenyi-Dadzie, Ghanaian journalist and businessperson Gifty Anti, Ghanaian journalist and broadcaster Gifty Ayew Asare, Ghanaian footballer Gifty Assifuah, Ghanaian footballer Gifty Osei Boakye Bingley, Ghanaian journalist and…
- English
Meaning & Origin of Gifty
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Gifty is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Empress Gifty, Ghanaian musician Gifty Acheampong, Ghanaian footballer Gifty Addy, Ghanaian sprinter Gifty Afenyi-Dadzie, Ghanaian journalist and businessperson Gifty Anti, Ghanaian journalist and broadcaster Gifty Ayew Asare, Ghanaian footballer Gifty Assifuah, Ghanaian footballer Gifty Osei Boakye Bingley, Ghanaian journalist and…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Gifty
The earliest SSA record of Gifty as a baby girl name dates back to 1987, when 5 babies received it. 1993 was its biggest year on record, with 8 newborns named Gifty — #9,559 in the national rankings. About 31% of every Gifty on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Gifty last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 48 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Gifty
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Names that sound like Gifty
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About the name Gifty
Gifty is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1987 and has accumulated 48 births in the dataset. Gifty's peak popularity came in 1993 when it ranked #9,559. Use the chart and map above to compare Gifty's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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