Meaning not yet researched.
Gil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #686 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #686 in 1957; #4,917 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,917 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #686.
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Gil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #686 in 1957 · most boys in one year: 124 (1957).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Gil, making it the 4,917th most common boys’ name of the year, down 901 places from #4,016 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 27 boys named Gil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #686, reached in 1957. That year also had the most boys given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #3,462 in 2015 and #962 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gil in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 12 babies. In all, 4,971 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 915 babies named Gil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 263 US boys were named Gil; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gilbert (130,821 babies since 1880) and Giles (4,732 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gilles, Egidio and Gilson 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gilles (359), Egidio (164), Gilson (46), Gyles (6), Gyle (5), Gile (5).
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 Gil in the open dataset we use.
Gil is listed as a nickname for Gilbert.
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 | — | — | 20 | #4,917 |
| 2024 | — | — | 27 | #4,016 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,654 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,606 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,196 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,318 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,934 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,737 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,335 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,468 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,462 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,403 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,102 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,074 |
| 2011 | — | — | 33 | #3,328 |
| 2010 | — | — | 40 | #2,924 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,288 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,485 |
| 2007 | — | — | 44 | #2,735 |
| 2006 | — | — | 67 | #1,996 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,633 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,113 |
| 2003 | — | — | 47 | #2,290 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,441 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,446 |
| 2000 | — | — | 47 | #2,150 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,419 |
| 1998 | — | — | 55 | #1,820 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,866 |
| 1996 | — | — | 67 | #1,503 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,820 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,058 |
| 1993 | — | — | 49 | #1,751 |
| 1992 | — | — | 59 | #1,517 |
| 1991 | — | — | 52 | #1,621 |
| 1990 | — | — | 51 | #1,622 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,594 |
| 1988 | — | — | 47 | #1,562 |
| 1987 | — | — | 52 | #1,409 |
| 1986 | — | — | 36 | #1,741 |
| 1985 | — | — | 44 | #1,512 |
| 1984 | — | — | 67 | #1,102 |
| 1983 | — | — | 49 | #1,336 |
| 1982 | — | — | 52 | #1,298 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,314 |
| 1980 | — | — | 61 | #1,167 |
| 1979 | — | — | 41 | #1,473 |
| 1978 | — | — | 51 | #1,262 |
| 1977 | — | — | 50 | #1,260 |
| 1976 | — | — | 55 | #1,156 |
| 1975 | — | — | 49 | #1,217 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,207 |
| 1973 | — | — | 45 | #1,235 |
| 1972 | — | — | 54 | #1,114 |
| 1971 | — | — | 68 | #987 |
| 1970 | — | — | 55 | #1,106 |
| 1969 | — | — | 63 | #967 |
| 1968 | — | — | 48 | #1,074 |
| 1967 | — | — | 76 | #825 |
| 1966 | — | — | 71 | #864 |
| 1965 | — | — | 91 | #773 |
| 1964 | — | — | 107 | #744 |
| 1963 | — | — | 109 | #741 |
| 1962 | — | — | 115 | #717 |
| 1961 | — | — | 121 | #695 |
| 1960 | — | — | 99 | #768 |
| 1959 | — | — | 118 | #708 |
| 1958 | — | — | 115 | #699 |
| 1957 | — | — | 124 | #686 |
| 1956 | — | — | 94 | #758 |
| 1955 | — | — | 74 | #858 |
| 1954 | — | — | 100 | #723 |
| 1953 | — | — | 92 | #746 |
| 1952 | — | — | 78 | #797 |
| 1951 | — | — | 68 | #848 |
| 1950 | — | — | 52 | #962 |
| 1949 | — | — | 62 | #874 |
| 1948 | — | — | 55 | #936 |
| 1947 | — | — | 55 | #958 |
| 1946 | — | — | 40 | #1,102 |
| 1945 | — | — | 43 | #977 |
| 1944 | — | — | 31 | #1,200 |
| 1943 | — | — | 21 | #1,550 |
| 1942 | — | — | 30 | #1,284 |
| 1941 | — | — | 17 | #1,716 |
| 1940 | — | — | 27 | #1,296 |
| 1939 | — | — | 21 | #1,473 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,638 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,502 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,914 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,869 |
| 1934 | — | — | 20 | #1,580 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,945 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,203 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,731 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,354 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,035 |
| 1928 | — | — | 25 | #1,493 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,592 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,793 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,482 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,720 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,607 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,360 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,544 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,851 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,756 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,216 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,316 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,905 |
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).