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How popular is the name Gideon?
Births per year, rank history and how many Gideons are alive today.
Gideon (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 976th in 2025 with 31 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2017, when 55 babies were given the name, the 644th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2006, with 47 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Gideon you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old. Half of all Gideons born in England and Wales are between 9 and 25, and there are at least 1,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Gideon - on average, only one in every 253 such rooms contains a Gideon.
How many babies are named Gideon each year?
Where does Gideon rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Gideon most popular?
Gideon peaked in 2017, when 55 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Gideon?
At least 1,200 people named Gideon born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Gideon?
Most living Gideons are between 9 and 25; the most common age is about 14.
Is Gideon becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.