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Gedeon

#12,657 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Gideon

Gedeon has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #12,657 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Gedeon, 2025

1 in 663,000

Gedeon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gedeon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gideon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gedeon means

Gedeon is a form of Gideon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gedeon is used in Biblical Latin and Biblical Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gedeon → Gideon. The family’s meaning is “feller, hewer”, recorded in the naming reference for Gideon.

Origin, language, and formation

Gedeon is used in Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gideon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Gedeon is pronounced [ˈɡɛdɛon].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 boys were recorded with the name Gedeon between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2017; its best national rank was #7,174 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,174 in 2020 to #12,657 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,666 in 2015 to #12,657 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gedeon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,657
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gedeon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gedeon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gedeons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gedeon was born before 2015 — so the typical Gedeon is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Gedeon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,380
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,483
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,991
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2017 (11)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,174
2020

Spellings of Gedeon

Gedeon is not the most common spelling — Gideon is, with 35.4% against Gedeon's 0.26%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gedeon around the world

Where Gedeon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2011
    #3,830
    in 2011
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,592
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gedeon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,657
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,483
Best rank ever
#7,174
2020
Peak year
2017
11 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Gedeon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gedeon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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