Gefen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Gefen

The Social Security Administration has registered 15 babies named Gefen between 2002 and 2021, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gefen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 5 babies received it in a single year. Gefen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2023.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gefen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Gefen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gefen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 15 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.