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Gamaliel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,801 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,801 in 1979; #3,208 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gamaliel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,208 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #1,801.
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Gamaliel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,801 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 56 (2004).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Gamaliel, making it the 3,208th most common boys’ name of the year, up 338 places from #3,546 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 32 boys named Gamaliel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,801, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 56, in 2004. For comparison, it was #2,936 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gamaliel in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 6 babies. In all, 1,950 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 485 babies named Gamaliel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 373 US boys were named Gamaliel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,208 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,546 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,817 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,295 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,382 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,184 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,871 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,014 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,028 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,739 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,936 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,859 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,076 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,192 |
| 2011 | — | — | 33 | #3,327 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,698 |
| 2009 | — | — | 46 | #2,672 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,643 |
| 2007 | — | — | 43 | #2,773 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,418 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,251 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,111 |
| 2003 | — | — | 48 | #2,244 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,313 |
| 2001 | — | — | 51 | #2,066 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,205 |
| 1999 | — | — | 44 | #2,146 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,516 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,143 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,959 |
| 1995 | — | — | 29 | #2,576 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,797 |
| 1993 | — | — | 30 | #2,471 |
| 1992 | — | — | 33 | #2,268 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,363 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #1,984 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,265 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,544 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,501 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,182 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,536 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,904 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,164 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,225 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,369 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,390 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,801 |
| 1978 | — | — | 24 | #2,029 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,029 |
| 1976 | — | — | 25 | #1,953 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,573 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,199 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,762 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,035 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,604 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,146 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,595 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,336 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,865 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,119 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,467 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,462 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,740 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,186 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,133 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,578 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,881 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,422 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,600 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,043 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).