How Many People Are Named Gideon?
people named Gideon are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 16,102 people in the US has this name
Based on 22,302 babies named Gideon in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,161 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "feller" or "hewer" in Hebrew. Gideon is a hero and judge of the Old Testament. He led the vastly outnumbered Israelites against the Midianites, defeated them, and killed their two kings. In the English-speaking world, Gideon has been used as a given name since the Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the Puritans.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Gideon (99.9%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Gideon alive today is about 13 years old, and 91% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Gideon first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2017, to 1,161 babies. In 2025, 993 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Gideon has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #304, in 2017. In 2025 it ranked #337.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #337 |
| Best rank | #304 (2017) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #357 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Gideon alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Gideon were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,686 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gideon was given 3.7 times as often in Alaska, 2.7 times in Idaho and 2.2 times in Utah.
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