Gamaliel
Gamaliel was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,207 among boys’ names; 1,950 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Gamaliel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gamaliel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gamaliel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gamaliel is “a male given name from Hebrew (“God is my reward”).”
From Middle English Gamaliel, from Late Latin Gamaliēl, from Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl), from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl), from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).
/ ɡəˈmeɪ.li.əl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gamaliel?
#3,207 among boys’ names, 2025
Gamaliel fell from #2,935 in 2015 to #3,207 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 20.9 to 21.7 per million.
56 babies in 2004, the peak
Gamaliel peaked in 2004, when 56 boys were given it, #2,107 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,207 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,544 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,816 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,293 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,379 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,180 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,870 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,012 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,027 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,738 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,935 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,857 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,074 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,189 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,326 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,697 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,671 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,642 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,772 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,417 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,247 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,107 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,240 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,309 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,062 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,201 | 22.9 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,143 | 22.9 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,513 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,140 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,954 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,571 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,792 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,465 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,263 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,357 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,979 | 18.5 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,259 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,539 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,497 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,180 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,534 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,903 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,163 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,224 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,368 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,389 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,801 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,029 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,029 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,952 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,571 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,197 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,760 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,035 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,603 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,144 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,594 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,335 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,864 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,118 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,261 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,466 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,461 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,739 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,127 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,185 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,131 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,577 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,879 | 2.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,421 | 6.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,598 | 4.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,041 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gamaliel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gamaliel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gamaliel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gamaliel, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,950 Americans ever recorded as Gamaliel. The median Gamaliel alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,895 people named Gamaliel (16 women and girls, 2,879 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,677 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 211 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 408 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 705 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 486 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gamaliel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,157 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,695 | 0.6× |
Where Gamaliel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gamaliel is most over-represented in California: since 1921 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gamaliel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,955 babies since 1880, Gamaliel is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 42 babies (88%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gamaliel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gamaliel and names like it
- Compare Gamaliel and GamlielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGamaliel peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gamaliel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Gamaliel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Gamaliel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gamaliel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.