Spurgeon
Spurgeon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,625 among boys’ names; 1,451 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Spurgeon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Spurgeon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Spurgeon is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Spurgeon?
#13,625 among boys’ names, 2025
Spurgeon entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,625 in 2025.
45 babies in 1918, the peak
Spurgeon peaked in 1918, when 45 boys were given it, #1,010 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,625 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,964 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,882 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,074 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,436 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,859 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,813 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,560 | 4.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,882 | 2.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,511 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #9,616 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,827 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,231 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,161 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,941 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,048 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,366 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,142 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,007 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,576 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,794 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,180 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,037 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,082 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,745 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,212 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,250 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,288 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,551 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,067 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,523 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,639 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,489 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,807 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,180 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,967 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,103 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,824 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,360 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,765 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,308 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,437 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,013 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,728 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,875 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,623 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,877 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,394 | 18.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,034 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,523 | 17.1 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,167 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,865 | 13.6 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,888 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,080 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,791 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,649 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,244 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,400 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,773 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,636 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,528 | 21.9 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,667 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,562 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,266 | 30.2 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,560 | 21.6 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,244 | 30.5 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,221 | 31.8 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,319 | 28.3 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,391 | 26.7 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,194 | 33.6 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,272 | 31.0 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,019 | 45.9 |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,010 | 44.4 |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,002 | 46.5 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,137 | 38.2 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,067 | 43.6 |
| 1914 | 32 | #997 | 48.9 |
| 1913 | 28 | #948 | 54.6 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,134 | 41.9 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,181 | 44.3 |
| 1910 | 12 | #976 | 61.8 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,078 | 54.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,325 | 40.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,285 | 41.9 |
| 1902 | 8 | #918 | 65.2 |
| 1901 | 9 | #774 | 84.5 |
| 1900 | 9 | #963 | 59.8 |
| 1899 | 8 | #847 | 75.3 |
| 1898 | 7 | #985 | 57.1 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,209 | 44.3 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,250 | 41.8 |
| 1895 | 8 | #865 | 68.1 |
| 1894 | 9 | #780 | 77.7 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,015 | 53.4 |
| 1892 | 12 | #633 | 98.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #831 | 69.2 |
| 1885 | 8 | #757 | 74.2 |
| 1884 | 6 | #958 | 52.4 |
| 1883 | 6 | #871 | 57.3 |
| 1880 | 5 | #1,042 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Spurgeon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Spurgeon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Spurgeon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Spurgeon, and how old are they?
An estimated 384 Americans named Spurgeon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 49 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 481 people named Spurgeon (4 women and girls, 477 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
Where are babies named Spurgeon born?
The states with the most babies named Spurgeon are North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Alabama, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 145 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 27 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Spurgeon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Spurgeon is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.4 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 Spurgeon 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 Spurgeon
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 Spurgeon and names like it
- Compare Spurgeon and NewmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sSpurgeon peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Spurgeon since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Spurgeon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Spurgeon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.