Gershon

#3,149 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Gershom

Gershon has been given to 977 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #3,149 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Gershon, 2025

1 in 87,200

Gershon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gershon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gershom

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gershon means

Gershon is a variant of Gershom.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gershon → Gershom. The family’s proposed meaning is “exile”, recorded in the naming reference for Gershom.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gershom.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 977 boys were recorded with the name Gershon between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,826 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,184 in 2020 to #3,149 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,205 in 2015 to #3,149 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Gershon?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 87,200; 38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 44,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,149; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 60,472 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gershon 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gershon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gershons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gershon was born before 2006 — so the typical Gershon is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 58.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 909; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (223).

Is Gershon 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: +30; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,035; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,056; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.58×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2024 (38)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,826; 1933

Spellings of Gershon

Gershon is not the most common spelling — Gerson is, with 37.6% against Gershon's 8.5%.

Gerson37.6%4,323
Deshon22.2%2,552
Jerson10.8%1,246
Keshon10.8%1,240
Gershon8.5%977
Marshon5.5%637
Herson4.6%530

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.

Where Gershon is used

Across 1910–2025, Gershon was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 36,256 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

24 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New Jersey1 in 25,000
2New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gershon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gershon around the world

Where Gershon 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
2004–2016
#4,810
in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Gershon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,149
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,035
Best rank ever: #2,826; 1933
Peak year: 2024; 38 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 977
Count in 2025: 38

Names similar to Gershon

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

Germain Gerrard Geraldo Geremy Gerome Geremiah Rayshon Gershom Nahshon Germaine Gryphon Marshon Gerrick Gerrit Geronimo Jashon Gerrell Gergory Geroge Gerhardt Gerhard Gerson Keshon Vashon

Sibling names for Gershon

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

For a sister

Leonor Keren Karleigh Shoshana Nila Kamilah Eloisa Denisse

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Henri Arvin Leander Lucio

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