Gurshan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gurshan has been given to 202 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Gurshan, 2024
1 in 557,000
Gurshan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gurshan?
Gurshan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gurshan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gurshan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gurshans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gurshan was born before 2009 — so the typical Gurshan is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 202
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (101).
Is Gurshan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2005 (22)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.7% average annual change
Spellings of Gurshan
Gurshan is not the most common spelling — Gershon is, with 50.1% against Gurshan's 10.3%.
Where Gurshan is used
Across 1910–2025, Gurshan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 349,506 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Gurshan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gurshan around the world
Where Gurshan 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 & Wales2005–2025#5,137in 2025
- Canada2000–2024#1,698in 2024
- South Australia2009–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gurshan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gurshan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gurshan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.