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Gifts & Special Events stores on Shopify

Updated Jan 23 2026

There are 53,381 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:

  • 22.4% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell Flowers products
  • 6.4% 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
11,949

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 -61.7% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q4.
  • Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have increased 76% year-over-year in 2025 Q4.
Quarter
New Active Stores
2017 Q1
573
2017 Q2
356
2017 Q3
396
2017 Q4
526
2018 Q1
511
2018 Q2
1,069
2018 Q3
743
2018 Q4
562
2019 Q1
712
2019 Q2
631
2019 Q3
693
2019 Q4
642
2020 Q1
787
2020 Q2
1,338
2020 Q3
1,079
2020 Q4
1,520
2021 Q1
1,571
2021 Q2
1,174
2021 Q3
1,324
2021 Q4
1,522
2022 Q1
977
2022 Q2
980
2022 Q3
1,567
2022 Q4
1,148
2023 Q1
1,405
2023 Q2
1,428
2023 Q3
1,597
2023 Q4
1,743
2024 Q1
1,946
2024 Q2
1,875
2024 Q3
1,895
2024 Q4
2,260
2025 Q1
2,790
2025 Q2
2,559
2025 Q3
2,952
2025 Q4
3,968
2026 Q1 (to date)
1,520
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 58.0% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • Facebook is used by 40.0% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
  • Pinterest is used by 15.6% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
Type
Stores
Instagram
30,947
Facebook
21,332
Pinterest
8,318
Tiktok
7,355
YouTube
4,456
Twitter
3,428
LinkedIn
2,167
WhatsApp
1,070
Facebook Group
407
Snapchat
116
Yelp
86
Soundcloud
8
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.

  • 66.1% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have an email on their website
  • 41.5% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
35,267
Phone
22,160

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.

  • 43.6% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in United States
  • 11.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in United Kingdom
  • 6.5% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in Australia
  • 6.0% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category are in Canada
Country
Stores
23,267
3,463
3,213
1,927
1,310
1,261
718

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.

  • 21.0% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have installed the Judge.me Product Reviews App Shopify app.
  • 17.8% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category have installed the Shopify Inbox Shopify app.
  • 12.2% 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 529 different technologies that have 491,731 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
53,217
51,289
37,157
33,725
33,396

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.

  • 17.7% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category sell 250 - 999 different products.
  • 17.6% 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
7,651
10 - 24
6,860
25 - 49
6,921
50 - 99
7,760
100 - 249
9,369
250 - 999
9,475
1000 - 4999
3,210
5000 - 9999
365
10000 - 24999
199
25000 - 99999
177

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 21.5% 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 6.6% of Shopify stores in the Gifts & Special Events category.
Theme Name
Stores
trademark
11,492
dawn
5,226
rise
3,506
debut
3,058
horizon
2,208
ride
1,236
impulse
1,191
spotlight
1,148
minimal
1,103
origin
1,066

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.

  • 65.7% 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
35,092
.co.uk
3,039
.com.au
2,198
.de
1,333
.ca
1,222
.shop
995
.store
655
.nl
645
.net
634
.co
599

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
525
2016/12/30
Uncommon Goods
593
2016/12/30
Archie McPhee
881
2016/12/30
Tuckernuck
927
2017/10/27
Ten Thousand Villages
1,018
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
HELLO LASER
1,625,932
2026/01/23
Dynamite Fireworks Superstore
1,730,308
2026/01/23
Perfect Feast Corporate Gifts
3,415,745
2026/01/23
Sublimart
3,641,987
2026/01/23
ThinkWoof
3,805,312
2026/01/23

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