Meaning not yet researched.
Gerson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,137 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,137 in 2005; #1,576 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gerson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,576 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,137.
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Gerson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,137 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 145 (2008).
In 2025, 108 US boys were named Gerson, making it the 1,576th most common boys’ name of the year, up 264 places from #1,840 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 88 boys named Gerson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,137, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 145, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,900 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gerson in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 4,323 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,222 babies named Gerson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,010 US boys were named Gerson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 115. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,816 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gerson ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #598 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Gershon, Gerzon and Gersain are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gershon (977), Gerzon (17), Gersain (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gerson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 8 | #598 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #703 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #892 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,144 | #926 |
| California | 15 | #1,265 | #1,276 |
| New York | 8 | #1,341 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,432 | #1,479 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,930 | #1,312 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 108 | #1,576 |
| 2024 | — | — | 88 | #1,840 |
| 2023 | — | — | 100 | #1,699 |
| 2022 | — | — | 94 | #1,763 |
| 2021 | — | — | 78 | #1,937 |
| 2020 | — | — | 107 | #1,542 |
| 2019 | — | — | 95 | #1,683 |
| 2018 | — | — | 111 | #1,532 |
| 2017 | — | — | 114 | #1,482 |
| 2016 | — | — | 115 | #1,486 |
| 2015 | — | — | 77 | #1,900 |
| 2014 | — | — | 89 | #1,705 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,717 |
| 2012 | — | — | 101 | #1,564 |
| 2011 | — | — | 94 | #1,620 |
| 2010 | — | — | 114 | #1,452 |
| 2009 | — | — | 117 | #1,437 |
| 2008 | — | — | 145 | #1,213 |
| 2007 | — | — | 137 | #1,280 |
| 2006 | — | — | 137 | #1,225 |
| 2005 | — | — | 143 | #1,137 |
| 2004 | — | — | 120 | #1,260 |
| 2003 | — | — | 115 | #1,257 |
| 2002 | — | — | 101 | #1,320 |
| 2001 | — | — | 112 | #1,205 |
| 2000 | — | — | 95 | #1,343 |
| 1999 | — | — | 89 | #1,347 |
| 1998 | — | — | 85 | #1,375 |
| 1997 | — | — | 75 | #1,443 |
| 1996 | — | — | 82 | #1,324 |
| 1995 | — | — | 63 | #1,517 |
| 1994 | — | — | 74 | #1,354 |
| 1993 | — | — | 66 | #1,436 |
| 1992 | — | — | 67 | #1,386 |
| 1991 | — | — | 58 | #1,512 |
| 1990 | — | — | 52 | #1,597 |
| 1989 | — | — | 43 | #1,773 |
| 1988 | — | — | 38 | #1,797 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,082 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,183 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,934 |
| 1984 | — | — | 23 | #2,256 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,166 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,135 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,229 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,654 |
| 1979 | — | — | 15 | #2,941 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,968 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,491 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,826 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,075 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,408 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,437 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,873 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,780 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,633 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,343 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,123 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,152 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,271 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,133 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,067 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,030 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,756 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,897 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,967 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,127 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,249 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,732 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,043 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,730 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,251 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,103 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,734 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,352 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,862 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,885 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,433 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,522 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,735 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,410 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,496 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,088 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,981 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,996 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,353 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,162 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,268 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,686 |
| 1921 | — | — | 15 | #2,187 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,514 |
| 1919 | — | — | 12 | #2,419 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,313 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,930 |
| 1916 | — | — | 17 | #1,798 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,365 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,052 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,158 |
| 1912 | — | — | 15 | #1,237 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,841 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,547 |
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).