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Gerson

#1,576 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gerson has been given to 4,323 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #1,576 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Gerson, 2025

1 in 30,700

Gerson over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gerson: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gerson means

Gerson is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gerson is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Gerson is pronounced /ˈxeɾson/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,323 boys were recorded with the name Gerson between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 145 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,136 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,542 in 2020 to #1,576 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,900 in 2015 to #1,576 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 Gerson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,700
108 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,576
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gerson 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gersons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerson was born before 2005 — so the typical Gerson is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,956
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Choose a decade

2000s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (1,222).

Is Gerson 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
+264
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−34
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.5%
Peak was 2008 (145)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,136
2005

Spellings of Gerson

Gerson is not the most common spelling — Gordon is, with 20.9% against Gerson's 0.58%.

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 Gerson is used

Across 2016–2025, Gerson was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 13,723 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 5,556
  2. 2Virginia1 in 6,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 10,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 11,111
  5. 5Florida1 in 12,500
  6. 6California1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 16,667
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 20,000

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.

Gerson around the world

Where Gerson 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
    2011–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • France
    1901–2023
    #4,562
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #476
    in 1988

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.

Notable people named Gerson

People whose public names include Gerson, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gerson in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gerson. Linked forms have their own page here.

GershonGersomGuerson

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gerson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,576
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 34
Best rank ever
#1,136
2005
Peak year
2008
145 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,323
Count in 2025
108

Names similar to Gerson

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

GerritGermanGeromeGeremyMaisonGeraldoMaysonVinsonGibsonWessonGeroldCaysonJensonWatsonKaisonGeronimoGerryKolsonColsonEdsonSampsonGermaineHansonAllison

Names with a curve like Gerson

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gerson, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ObedArmanNeelGeovanniJacobiSamiJacoboFredySebastienAlekKentrellKeelan

Sibling names for Gerson

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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