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Ginny

American  
[jin-ee] / ˈdʒɪn i /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Virginia or Genevieve.


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“He’s a loyal kid,” said Smith’s mother, Ginny.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

"My oldest son has moved to Melbourne, because he can't find work here," opposition Labor MP Ginny Anderson told the BBC World Service recently.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2026

But both Nick and Ginny take pains to declare it’s not like that.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2025

In practice, as Ginny Hogan at the Nation wrote, it's mostly defined by the childish behavior of men who should have outgrown this long ago: silly memes, lazy trolling and lots of whining.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2024

Some months later, when I was talking to Ginny, she remembered Paul’s call and said, “I just think it’s so cool that at forty he still does that. I’d miss it if he didn’t.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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