Gifford
Gifford was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 1,452 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gifford by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gifford?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,224, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1920, the peak
Gifford peaked in 1920, when 40 boys were given it, #1,127 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,224 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,697 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,772 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,160 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,264 | 3.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,326 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,780 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,830 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,993 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,691 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | #7,096 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,446 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,329 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,723 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,748 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,278 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,946 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,429 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,708 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,270 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,349 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,751 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,962 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,538 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,887 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,226 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,624 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,154 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,140 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,529 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,078 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,678 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,354 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,070 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,689 | 11.1 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,025 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,740 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,935 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,792 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,978 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,773 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,515 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,919 | 8.3 |
| 1953 | 24 | #1,560 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,595 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,087 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,369 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,161 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,626 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,617 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,448 | 14.8 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,810 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,498 | 15.4 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,790 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,897 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,311 | 21.2 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,118 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,215 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,580 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,501 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,751 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,173 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,475 | 21.3 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,669 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,558 | 20.1 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,225 | 30.8 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,579 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,634 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,001 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,771 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,267 | 29.7 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,548 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,306 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,241 | 31.0 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,209 | 33.1 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,525 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,127 | 37.6 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,423 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,558 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,410 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,524 | 24.7 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,354 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,359 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 28 | #939 | 54.6 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,300 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,616 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,355 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,547 | 30.5 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,280 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,412 | 34.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,391 | 33.2 |
| 1898 | 8 | #834 | 65.2 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,126 | 44.3 |
| 1891 | 6 | #890 | 59.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gifford a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gifford has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gifford: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gifford, and how old are they?
An estimated 549 Americans named Gifford and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 49 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 765 people named Gifford (21 women and girls, 744 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 646 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gifford
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 Gifford and names like it
- Compare Gifford and VintonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGifford peaked in 1920.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gifford since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Gifford.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gifford alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.