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Spurgeon

#13,625 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Spurgeon has been given to 1,451 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #13,625 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Spurgeon, 2025

1 in 663,000

Spurgeon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Spurgeon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Spurgeon means

Spurgeon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Spurgeon is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,451 boys were recorded with the name Spurgeon between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1918; its best national rank was #633 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,436 in 2020 to #13,625 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 Spurgeon?

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
#13,625
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Spurgeon 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 Spurgeon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Spurgeons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Spurgeon was born before 1929 — so the typical Spurgeon is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
362
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1910s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (304).

Is Spurgeon 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
+339
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,189
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
11.1%
Peak was 1918 (45)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#633
1892

Where Spurgeon is used

Across 1910–2025, Spurgeon was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 177,587 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Spurgeon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Spurgeon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,625
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,189
Best rank ever
#633
1892
Peak year
1918
45 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,451
Count in 2025
5

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