Gilmer
Gilmer was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,187 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gilmer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gilmer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,233, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1918, the peak
Gilmer peaked in 1918, when 44 boys were given it, #1,021 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,233 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,900 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,996 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,113 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,382 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,225 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,187 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,148 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,368 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,016 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #13,121 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,996 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,546 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,150 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,602 | 2.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,248 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,427 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,632 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,347 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,868 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,264 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,437 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,283 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,465 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,716 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,562 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,308 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,413 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,480 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,356 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,786 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,584 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,740 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,490 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,060 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,258 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,618 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,338 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,598 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,917 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,729 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,436 | 17.4 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,349 | 20.4 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,119 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,747 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,413 | 20.7 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,594 | 17.8 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,608 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,680 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,403 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,946 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,611 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,732 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,474 | 22.8 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,353 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,730 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,333 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,586 | 20.7 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,512 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,258 | 30.0 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,311 | 28.3 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,230 | 32.2 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,341 | 28.1 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,262 | 31.0 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,172 | 36.7 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,021 | 43.4 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,246 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,082 | 40.4 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,477 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,906 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,225 | 35.1 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,149 | 39.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,842 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,149 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,353 | 36.6 |
| 1907 | 9 | #956 | 61.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gilmer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gilmer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gilmer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gilmer, and how old are they?
An estimated 324 Americans named Gilmer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 19 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 901 people named Gilmer (12 women and girls, 889 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 377 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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 Gilmer born?
The states with the most babies named Gilmer are North Carolina, Virginia and Texas, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 260 | not ranked | 6.7× |
| Virginia | 116 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| West Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Gilmer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gilmer is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 6.7 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 Gilmer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,321 babies since 1880, Gilmer is the most given (90% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gilmer
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 Gilmer and names like it
- Compare Gilmer and GilmarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGilmer peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gilmer since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Gilmer.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gilmer alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.