Gideon

What Gideon means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gideon yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #327 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gideon?

US: Steady: #327 in 2015, #337 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #765 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 1,161 boys got the name (#304 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,720 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,772 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys), ND (2.09 per 1,000 boys), ID (1.51 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Gideon is #337 in the US and #976 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gideon were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gedeon5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Gideon

Boys

• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Ari#393“lion”^*
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*

For a sister

• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gideon’s. Rank is US 2025.