Gladstone
Gladstone was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gladstone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gladstone?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,221, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1917, the peak
Gladstone peaked in 1917, when 13 boys were given it, #2,216 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #9,221 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,685 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,865 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,004 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,462 | 6.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,044 | 5.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,524 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,943 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,411 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,832 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 9 | #2,919 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,591 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,454 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,108 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,044 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,391 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,049 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,657 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,965 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,214 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,216 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,307 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,516 | 11.8 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,413 | 34.1 |
| 1898 | 7 | #922 | 57.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gladstone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gladstone has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gladstone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gladstone, and how old are they?
An estimated 25 Americans named Gladstone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 598 people named Gladstone (3 women and girls, 595 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17.1 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Gladstone
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 Gladstone and names like it
- Compare Gladstone and MerlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGladstone peaked in 1917.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gladstone since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Gladstone.
- Names starting with GMost given first.