Female name
Gypsy
198 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2004. Expression number: 11.
Origin
A clipping of Gyptian (in Early Modern English roughly /ˈd͡ʒɪp.sɪ.æn/), itself an apheretic form of Egyptian, from Middle English Egipcian (“Egyptian”) (rarely Gypcian), from Old French egyptien, from Latin aegyptianus, from aegyptius (“Egypt”), because when Roma first appeared in England in the sixteenth century, they were wrongly believed to have come from Egypt. The Albanian evgjit, Greek γύφτος (gýftos), Italian gitano, Spanish gitano and Turkish Kıpti have the same origin. Doublet of Egyptian and Copt. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Rom (words related to the Romani people's autonyms) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.From Wiktionary, entry “Gypsy”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In England and Wales
Peak in 2004: 22 births. 198 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 1990s and 2000s. It really came into use around 2004. It is still given: 10 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
11
intuition and inspiration (master number)
7 + 7 + 7 + 1 + 7 = 29 → 11
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
5
freedom, change, movement
7 + 7 = 14 → 5
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
6
responsibility, harmony, commitment to others
7 + 7 + 1 = 15 → 6
- Digits missing from the name
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
- Most frequent digit
- 7 · reflection, inner life, seeking
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.