Gershon is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Gerson, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Gershon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,827 in 1933.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,827 in 1933; #3,150 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gershon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,150 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1933, at #2,827.
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Gershon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,827 in 1933 · most boys in one year: 38 (2025).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Gershon, making it the 3,150th most common boys’ name of the year, up 31 places from #3,181 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 38 boys named Gershon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,827, reached in 1933. The most boys given the name in a single year was 38, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,207 in 2015 and #3,458 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gershon in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 977 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 223 babies named Gershon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 293 US boys were named Gershon; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerson (4,323 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Gershon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 38 | #3,150 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,181 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,498 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,364 |
| 2021 | — | — | 32 | #3,527 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,188 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,225 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,518 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,151 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,810 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,207 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,175 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,000 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,329 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,763 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,034 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,903 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,788 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,694 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,613 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,900 |
| 2004 | — | — | 17 | #4,862 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,657 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,089 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,793 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,486 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,892 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,253 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,527 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,702 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,642 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,602 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,422 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,934 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,881 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,253 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,309 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,000 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,699 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,716 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,270 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,786 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,046 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,098 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,134 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,235 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,967 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,773 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,572 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,015 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,539 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,248 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,626 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,865 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,183 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,425 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,746 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,653 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,458 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,941 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,681 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,725 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,401 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,884 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,827 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,421 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,453 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,556 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,493 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,210 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,203 |
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).