Gershon
Gershon was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,149 among boys’ names; 977 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gershon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gershon?
#3,149 among boys’ names, 2025
Gershon rose from #4,205 in 2015 to #3,149 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 22.2 per million.
38 babies in 2024, the peak
Gershon peaked in 2024, when 38 boys were given it, #3,179 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,149 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,179 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,496 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,362 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,524 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,184 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,221 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,514 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,147 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,809 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,205 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,172 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,998 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,323 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,758 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,033 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,899 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,784 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,692 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,609 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,895 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,857 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,650 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,083 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,786 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,478 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,887 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,247 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,522 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,695 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,636 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,596 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,416 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,927 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,874 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,247 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,302 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,995 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,692 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,712 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,267 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,783 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,044 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,096 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,132 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,234 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,965 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,771 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,570 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,013 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,537 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,246 | 3.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,625 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,864 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,182 | 2.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,424 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,745 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,324 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,652 | 2.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,456 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,939 | 2.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,680 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,724 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,401 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,882 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,826 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,419 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,451 | 4.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,554 | 4.6 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,492 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,209 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,202 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gershon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gershon 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 Gershon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gershon, and how old are they?
An estimated 882 Americans named Gershon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 856 people named Gershon (7 women and girls, 849 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above 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.
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 Gershon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 19 | #752 | 5.0× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #529 | 6.2× |
Where Gershon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gershon is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1915 it was given 6.2 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 Gershon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gershon
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.
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