Godson
#9,187 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Godson has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #9,187 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Godson, 2025
1 in 414,000
Godson over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Godson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,187
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Godson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Godson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Godsons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Godson was born before 2017 — so the typical Godson is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 122
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Godson 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
- +1,052
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +718
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,532
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.3%
- Peak was 2019 (15)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.2% average annual change
Spellings of Godson
Godson is not the most common spelling — Gordon is, with 45.9% against Godson's 0.04%.
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 Godson is used
Across 1910–2025, Godson was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 605,682 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
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. Godson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Godson around the world
Where Godson 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 & Wales2006–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2004–2020#5,231in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Godson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Godson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Godson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.