Gideon

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Gideon: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Gideon: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #403 in 2005, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#403highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#633
1997	#694
1998	#629
1999	#563
2000	#751
2001	#728
2002	#753
2003	#865
2004	#599
2005	#781
2006	#608
2007	#782
2008	#789
2009	#748
2010	#758
2011	#671
2012	#734
2013	#684
2014	#714
2015	#765
2016	#818
2017	#644
2018	#777
2019	#787
2020	#796
2021	#939
2022	#825
2023	#857
2024	#826

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #826 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #633 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2003–2025
Highest recorded position: #403 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2003–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Gideon appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,059 births with the name.

Gideon across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Gideon's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#633 (1996)	#563 (1999)	#826 (2024)	29 of 29	1,059 (1996–2024)	55 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#403 (2005)	#577 (2025)	4 of 23	16 (2003–2025)	5 (2005)

Gideon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Gideon in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	109	4 of 10	27
2000s	322	10 of 10	32
2010sbusiest	443	10 of 10	44
2020s	185	5 of 10	37

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 44 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Gideon appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #403 in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Gideon's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#826	39	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#857	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#825	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#939	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#796	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#787	40	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#777	42	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#644	55	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#818	39	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#765	42	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#714	45	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#734	45	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#671	48	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#758	39	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#748	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#789	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#782	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#608	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#781	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#599	40	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#865	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#753	25	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#728	24	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#563	33	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#629	28	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#694	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#633	25	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#403	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #403, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 55 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Gift · #369, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Codey · #403, 28y
Edan · #403, 29y
Mani · #403, 28y
Ayana · #402, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Codey · #403, 28y
Edan · #403, 29y
Haseeb · #403, 29y
Jonjo · #403, 29y

Gideon was ranked #403 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Gideon and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Gideon without appearing here.

Gideon moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #865 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #599 and #1347.
Wayne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #758 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #671 and #1303.
Geoffrey Compare
In 1998 they stood at #629 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #563 and #1082.
Grant Compare
In 2005 they stood at #781 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #608 and #1048.

Moved ahead of Gideon

Jonas Compare
In 2006 they stood at #608 and #663 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #782 and #476.
Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #608 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #782 and #509.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #608 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #782 and #538.
Carter Compare
In 1996 they stood at #633 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #694 and #476.

Moved the opposite way to Gideon

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gideon went from #563 to #826 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gideon went from #563 to #826 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gideon went from #563 to #826 while Kasper went from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gideon went from #563 to #826 while Rune went from #2943 to #1460.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #403 in Republic of Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gideon

Gideon at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Gideon across 2 official records

Gideon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Gideon appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Gideon at a glance

Gideon across 2 official records

Gideon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Gideon appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Gideon

Gideon and the names beside it

Gideon moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Gideon

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