girls:
32 births since 2002
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
20.2k births since 1880
#813 (82nd percentile)
overall:
20.2k births since 1880
#1802 (77th percentile)
The name Gideon is the #1,802 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,208 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #813 (82.3% percentile) for all time with 20,176 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 2002.
Gideon has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2002 for girls). Birth data for Gideon is available in 131 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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.
The name Gideon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gideon reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 67.9% percentile (ranked #299) with 576 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 587 births per million (ranked 67.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gideon is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #303 (66.8% percentile) with 565 births per million.
For girls, Gideon reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #954) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gideon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gideon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Gideon is pronounced as GIH-dee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JIH-dee-uhn, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like G IH1 D IY0 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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