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Gifts & Special Events stores on Shopify

Updated Jan 9 2026

There are 52,935 live Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

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The most popular subcategories under Gifts & Special Events are:

  • 22.2% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell Flowers products
  • 6.5% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell Cards & Greetings products

Here are the the top Gifts & Special Events subcategories by store count.

Name
Store Count
11,746

Growth of Gifts & Special Events Stores On Shopify

Here is the historical growth of stores on Shopify in the Gifts & Special Events category.

  • Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have decreased -87.3% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q4.
  • Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have increased 78% year-over-year in 2025 Q4.
Quarter
New Active Stores
2017 Q1
571
2017 Q2
360
2017 Q3
396
2017 Q4
528
2018 Q1
513
2018 Q2
1,072
2018 Q3
744
2018 Q4
569
2019 Q1
710
2019 Q2
639
2019 Q3
697
2019 Q4
642
2020 Q1
784
2020 Q2
1,338
2020 Q3
1,085
2020 Q4
1,527
2021 Q1
1,574
2021 Q2
1,177
2021 Q3
1,318
2021 Q4
1,533
2022 Q1
958
2022 Q2
985
2022 Q3
1,564
2022 Q4
1,144
2023 Q1
1,406
2023 Q2
1,430
2023 Q3
1,594
2023 Q4
1,756
2024 Q1
1,962
2024 Q2
1,885
2024 Q3
1,898
2024 Q4
2,322
2025 Q1
2,858
2025 Q2
2,601
2025 Q3
3,109
2025 Q4
4,129
2026 Q1 (to date)
523
Active Store Count by Quarter

It's hard to know exactly when a Shopify store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here are the top social media sites for Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

  • Instagram is used by 58.2% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • Facebook is used by 40.3% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • Pinterest is used by 15.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
Type
Stores
Instagram
30,808
Facebook
21,319
Pinterest
8,289
Tiktok
7,264
YouTube
4,418
Twitter
3,431
LinkedIn
2,153
WhatsApp
1,039
Facebook Group
409
Snapchat
122
Yelp
86
Soundcloud
9
Discord
5

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here are the top contact methods for Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

  • 66.6% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have an email on their website
  • 41.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
35,264
Phone
22,083

Top Countries For Shopify Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here are the top countries for Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

  • 43.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in United States
  • 11.8% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in United Kingdom
  • 6.4% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in Australia
  • 5.9% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in Canada
Country
Stores
23,134
3,410
3,146
1,918
1,403
1,221
694

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Top Shopify Apps For Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here are the top Shopify apps, ordered by number of installs, across stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

  • 20.8% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have installed the Judge.me Product Reviews App Shopify app.
  • 17.9% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have installed the Shopify Inbox Shopify app.
  • 12.3% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have installed the Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS Shopify app.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Top Technologies on Shopify Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Many Shopify merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Shopify App Store.

We're tracking 525 different technologies that have 485,399 collective installs on Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

  • Cloudflare is used by 99.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 99.5% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • Arrive is used by 96.1% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores.

Technology
Stores
52,774
50,852
36,765
33,360
33,033

Number Of Products Sold For Shopify Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category by the number of products that they sell.

  • 17.9% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell 250 - 999 different products.
  • 17.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 14.5% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell 50 - 99 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
7,327
10 - 24
6,856
25 - 49
6,902
50 - 99
7,666
100 - 249
9,373
250 - 999
9,496
1000 - 4999
3,192
5000 - 9999
374
10000 - 24999
204
25000 - 99999
172

Top Shopify Themes For Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Shopify has an active and extension theme store. Merchants using Shopify can use one of those pre-built theme or develop their own custom theme to meet their needs. We're currently tracking over 1000 different Shopify themes. Here are the top themes.

  • The trademark theme is used by 21.9% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • The dawn theme is used by 9.8% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • The rise theme is used by 6.5% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
Theme Name
Stores
trademark
11,603
dawn
5,208
rise
3,455
debut
3,079
horizon
1,949
ride
1,238
impulse
1,177
spotlight
1,139
minimal
1,103
origin
1,020

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

The majority of Shopify stores use a .com domain. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only been introduced somewhat recently and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

  • 65.9% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have a .com domain.
  • 5.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have a .co.uk domain.
  • 4.1% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have a .com.au domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
34,887
.co.uk
3,036
.com.au
2,181
.de
1,321
.ca
1,203
.shop
948
.nl
641
.net
631
.store
611
.co
600

Top Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here are the top 5 Gifts & Special Events stores ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
UrbanStems
523
2016/12/30
Uncommon Goods
594
2016/12/30
Ten Thousand Villages
819
2016/12/30
Tuckernuck
919
2017/10/27
Archie McPhee
921
2016/12/30

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New Stores In The Gifts & Special Events Category

Here are the top 5 most recent Gifts & Special Events stores.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
GetCraftyWithGiqueyy
3,646,213
2026/01/09
shoplya
4,115,672
2026/01/09
Custom Love USA
6,493,292
2026/01/09
The Rosarium
6,520,547
2026/01/09
desdecorandsupplies
6,543,671
2026/01/09

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