Gipsy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Comme les mots copte et gitan, le mot gipsy dérive d’Égyptien et désigne, en anglais, les Gitans
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xipsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gipsy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 27K
- BRBrazil1 in 10M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
222 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Comme les mots copte et gitan, le mot gipsy dérive d’Égyptien et désigne, en anglais, les Gitans. Il est passé en français et fait son pluriel à l’anglaise en gipsies. Voir Gitan .
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gipsy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 222 | 1 in 1.5M | 211 | Gipsy | 111 |
| CR Costa Rica | 186 | 1 in 27K | 186 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | — | Gipsy | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Gipsy | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | — | — | Gipsy | 4 |
222 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 211 | #35,980 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 186 | #1,497 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #120,190 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #35,980 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gipsy?
- A machine transcription gives /xipsi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Gipsy mean?
- Recorded meaning: Comme les mots copte et gitan, le mot gipsy dérive d’Égyptien et désigne, en anglais, les Gitans.
- Is Gipsy a male or female name?
- Gipsy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Gipsy?
- In the etymology graph, Gypsy is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gipsy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 222 people named Gipsy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gipsy.
- Where is Gipsy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gipsy is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gipsy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 222 people named Gipsy in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gipsyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gipsy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.