How Many People Are Named Gilmer?
people named Gilmer are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,023,307 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,187 babies named Gilmer in Social Security records from 1907 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
44 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Gilmer in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Gilmer alive today is about 56 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 20 and 79 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Gilmer first appears in the records in 1907 and was given most often in 1918, to 44 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1907 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Gilmer has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #956, in 1907.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #956 (1907) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,359 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Gilmer alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Gilmer were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 40 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gilmer was given 19.9 times as often in North Carolina and 12.6 times in Virginia.
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