Gilmore
Gilmore was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 753 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gilmore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gilmore mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gilmore is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “servant lad” (gille) and “Mary mother of Jesus” (Moire).
From Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gilmore?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,312, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1914, the peak
Gilmore peaked in 1914, when 32 boys were given it, #991 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #9,312 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,657 | 2.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,713 | 3.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,184 | 2.9 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,152 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,477 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,259 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,117 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,903 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,717 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 14 | #2,171 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,819 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,236 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,201 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,499 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,491 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,120 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,421 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,910 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,964 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,720 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,791 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,792 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,253 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,120 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,682 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,770 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,761 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,915 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,794 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,631 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,864 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,742 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,963 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,779 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,665 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,002 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,536 | 22.2 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,753 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,471 | 23.3 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,596 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,165 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,605 | 21.1 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,187 | 13.6 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,916 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,301 | 30.6 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,466 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,308 | 30.3 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,222 | 33.7 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,683 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 32 | #991 | 48.9 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,856 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,043 | 46.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,617 | 26.6 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,200 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,468 | 32.4 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,203 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gilmore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gilmore has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gilmore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gilmore, and how old are they?
An estimated 141 Americans named Gilmore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 67 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 404 people named Gilmore (23 women and girls, 381 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,940 babies since 1880, Gilmore is the second most given (39% 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 Gilmore
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 Gilmore and names like it
- Compare Gilmore and GilmerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGilmore peaked in 1914.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gilmore since 1910.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Gilmore.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gilmore alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.