boys:
898 births since 1915
#3691 (19th percentile)
overall:
898 births since 1915
#6841 (12th percentile)
The name Gershon is the #6,841 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 898 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 11.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,691 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 898 births since 1915.
Gershon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for boys in 1915). Birth data for Gershon is available in 70 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Gershon reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #894) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Gershon ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 90.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gershon".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gershon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Gershon is pronounced as GER-shuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GER-shahn, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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