Gerson
Gerson is a boy's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 1,211th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,571st. About 3,900 Gersons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gerson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,323
- Estimated living today
- 3,900
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 1,211th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,571st
- First recorded
- 1909
How old the living Gersons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,323 babies given the name since 1909, about 3,900 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Gersons
- Gerson Rodrigues (born 1995)Luxembourgian association football player
- Gerson Santos Putin (born 1997)Brazilian footballer Of Vasco Da Gama
- Gerson Torres (born 1997)Costa Rican footballer
- Gerson Vieira (born 1992)Brazilian association football player
- Gerson von Bleichröder (1822–1893)German banker
- Gerson Guimarães Junior (born 1992)Brazilian association football player
- Gérson Magrão (born 1985)Brazilian professional footballer
People named Gerson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gerson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gerson is most concentrated in California (3.3×), Texas (2.8×), Maryland (2.7×), Virginia (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Gerson peaked:
Gerson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Gerson | 75 | 4,562nd |
| England and Wales boys | Gerson | 3 | 4,647th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Gerson lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 531 men called Gerson were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palencia | Gerson | 6 | 0.076 | 760 |
| Valladolid | Gerson | 16 | 0.062 | 834 |
| Burgos | Gerson | 10 | 0.055 | 962 |
| Ourense | Gerson | 7 | 0.048 | 967 |
| León | Gerson | 10 | 0.046 | 1,060 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Gerson | 14 | 0.045 | 1,294 |
Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Gerson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.