Gorge vs Gorman
American parents have registered 2,609 Gorges since 1880, against 818 Gormans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Gorge Gorman
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Gorge for 81 years and Gorman for 31 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–1900 Gorge ahead
- 1914–1943 Gorman ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1944–2020 Gorge ahead, apart from one short spell
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Gorge | Gorman | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,609 | 818 |
| Most in one year | 62 | 32 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,900 | 180 |
| Median age today | 44 | 73 |
| Peak year | 1975 | 1924 |
| Best rank | 1,053rd boys | 1,287th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1903 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,609 | 0 / 818 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Gormans alive today are over 73; half the Gorges are over 44. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gorge and Gorman.