Gibson
Gibson was given to 98 boys in 2025, #1,680 among boys’ names; 5,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,950 Americans named Gibson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gibson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gibson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gibson is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From Gibb + -son.
/ˈɡɪbsən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gibson?
#1,680 among boys’ names, 2025
Gibson fell from #947 in 2015 to #1,680 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.06 per 1,000.
268 babies in 2013, the peak
Gibson peaked in 2013, when 268 babies were given it (262 boys, #824 among boys’ names). The 98 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,680 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,623 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,613 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 97 | #1,733 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 143 | #1,312 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 164 | #1,174 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,129 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 213 | #975 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 230 | #920 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 230 | #923 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 220 | #947 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 259 | #857 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 262 | #824 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 250 | #851 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 222 | #911 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 202 | #976 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 178 | #1,059 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 159 | #1,142 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,257 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,345 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,292 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,335 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 80 | #1,546 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 76 | #1,573 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,734 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,746 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,071 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,145 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,268 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,805 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,321 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,310 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,996 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,513 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,774 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,948 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,492 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,407 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,366 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,872 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,366 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,022 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,146 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,235 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,133 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,860 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,179 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,892 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,530 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,963 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,789 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,979 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,735 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,943 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,306 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,105 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,590 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,008 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,010 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,164 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,458 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,615 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,279 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,312 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,006 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,189 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 9 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 8 | #724 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gibson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,561 Americans recorded as Gibson, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 98 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gibson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gibson, and how old are they?
4,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 5,561 Americans ever recorded as Gibson. The median Gibson alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,463 people named Gibson (221 women and girls, 4,242 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 149 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 108 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 291 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,360 |
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 Gibson born?
The states with the most babies named Gibson are Michigan, Indiana and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 10 | #736 | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 7 | #800 | 1.2× |
| California | 5 | #2,589 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,084 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 5 | #800 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | #892 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #824 | 0.1× |
Where Gibson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gibson is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Gibson 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 Gibson
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 Gibson and names like it
- Compare Gibson and EliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGibson peaked in 2013.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gibson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Gibson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Gibson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gibson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.