🎁 2025 Personalized Gift Trends: What’s Shaping the Future of Gifting in the U.S.
The personalized gifts market in the US & worldwide is in very positive health and has significant annual growth from the data.
This is our take on the data as personalized gifts specialists.
A report has been published by GlobalNewswire makes for some interesting reading. They report an expected market growth increase from 9.69 billion in 2024 to 14.56 billion $ by 2030.
We gave seen from experience which corresponds to the data that - Millennials and Gen Zs who will run the world one day are leading the way in the personalized gifts market space.
Here we look at top trends for 2025.
Regional US Trends
In our view in the Northeast, urban population centers like New York and Boston consumers are looking for premium, artisanal, and sustainable personalized products, often tied to events like weddings and corporate gifting. This may be a generalisation but there is some indication of this and the following.
The southern states favor personalized milestone gifts like monogrammed décor and engraved items. There is an emphasis on family traditions.
Our customers love engraved jewelry. It is highly personalized, has so much meaning and can be gifts with such heart.
There is indication in our view midwest customers want favor practicality and affordability. There is an emphasis on value driven items like embroidered apparel and customized kitchenware.
In the west it seems eco-conscious, tech savy consumers are seeking sustainable gifts and culturally specific items.
In the southwest they are seeking customized outdoor great, leather goods, travel items.
Millennials / Gen Z's & Personalized Gifts
The millennials and Gen Z folk among us favor personalized gifts over generic gifts due to the fact they value meaningful connections and thoughtfulness.
This report is so interesting.
They want to keep it real.
Millennials and Gen Z folk like their individuality, style and know their values to us.
In this digital age it seems to us Millennials and Gen Z's are conscious of the value of deep bonds between them and their loved ones as we spend more time online.
They can see in this digital, busy, sometimes crazy world the value of their relationships that emotionally prosper them. Human to human person interaction cannot be replicated online.
A survey of 2,000 adults done by OnePoll on behalf of shutterfly from 2023 showed 62% of Millennials and 59% of Gen Z prefer physical cards and 55% of all respondents favored personalized messages. You can see more detail of this survey here.
The trends showed that 70% of recipients valuing personalized gifts as they reflect deep bonds.
Popular personalized items included jewelry, clothing, greeting cards, and artwork.
Trends in Seasonal and Event-Based Gifting
Gift exchanging with our loved ones has long held its place as culturally significant touchpoints in peoples lives. You can see on this post how long mother's day celebrations have been going on.
This is part of the fabric of our society where the act of giving and receiving comes alive in the form of gifts at Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving etc.
The research shows that people value the emotional side of gifts over their bottom line monetary worth.
In our view our customers want depth, emotional bonds deepening, they want the real in our opinion.
Seasonal occasions like Easter, like Halloween – they want the personal touch to form part of gifts, as they know the recipients will appreciate them more and feel the love basically.
The same is true for gifts for life events like graduations, weddings, baby showers – people want the person touch again, it’s more sentimental, it celebrates and honors the moment more.
There is desire amongst the millennials to forge lasting memories and have stronger personal connections, possibly as we spend so much time on tech nowadays in our view.
Conclusion
Females Lead in Personalized Gifting
It is clear from the data females across the board prefer personal gifts, which are thoughtful and show the effort was made.
A customized gift shows that time and effort were put into choosing something special for occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays.
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Cloncaia Bio
At Cloncaia we turn everyday objects into meaningful, personalized gifts for family members, friends and for any loved one of our customer. Our motto is ''show the love'' so we apply this to the products creation process by turning Photos, Names, Custom Messages, Portrait drawings into gifts with heart & style for our customers.
Author: Roger J. is the author of this blog and founder of Cloncaia. He believes the best gifts come form the heart and which pack an emotional punch. At Cloncaia we are inspired to create gifts that have meaning and make our customers happy.
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Important Note :
At Cloncaia, we are an ethical company and have clear shipping, return, refund policies. Our designers and production team have many years of experience, act professionally and with care when custom designing and fulling orders.
We can be contacted on support@cloncaia.com
Feel free to contact us anytime. We're happy to talk about Personalized Gifts and answer any questions to help you find the right one.
Written by Cloncaia — creators of custom gifts for heartfelt moments