Boys' name · since 2010
Gedaliah
15 babies named Gedaliah in U.S. Social Security records since 2010, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #31,353 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 15
- born since 2010
- 2010s
- peak decade
Gedaliah sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 15 recorded since 2010.
Gedaliah has 15 recorded births among boys since 2010, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2010 to 2019.
- #31,353 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 15 born since 2010
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Gedaliah ranks #31,353 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 15 born since 2010, peaking in the 2010s.
- #31,353 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 15
- born since 2010
- 2010s
- peak decade
Gedaliah's 15 recorded births place it above 30.23% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Gedaliah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Gedaliah splits its recorded history at 2011: 67% of all births land in the more recent half, 33% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2010 (5 births).
Gedaliah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–2019
- Peak year (2010)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Gedaliah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (15 births, 100% of the file).
2010s was Gedaliah's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Gedaliah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 15 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Gedaliah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2010)
Similar record span (~9 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2010–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Gedaliah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.