# Gideon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gideon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “gideon”, “feller”, “hewer”, “mighty warrior” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɡɪd.i.ən/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 22,302 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 22,270 / 32 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,090, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón, “Gideon”) ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").

## What it means

Gideon is grouped under warrior.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | 14,194 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17,703 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,514 |
| 2021 | 7 | 12,646 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,658 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 689 | 411 |
| 2012 | 765 | 391 |
| 2013 | 846 | 367 |
| 2014 | 944 | 348 |
| 2015 | 1,055 | 327 |
| 2016 | 1,034 | 336 |
| 2017 | 1,161 | 304 |
| 2018 | 1,108 | 308 |
| 2019 | 1,043 | 320 |
| 2020 | 1,031 | 321 |
| 2021 | 1,084 | 308 |
| 2022 | 1,027 | 330 |
| 2023 | 1,047 | 318 |
| 2024 | 1,054 | 329 |
| 2025 | 993 | 337 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | 671 |
| 2012 | 45 | 734 |
| 2013 | 48 | 684 |
| 2014 | 45 | 714 |
| 2015 | 42 | 765 |
| 2016 | 39 | 818 |
| 2017 | 55 | 644 |
| 2018 | 42 | 777 |
| 2019 | 40 | 787 |
| 2020 | 39 | 796 |
| 2021 | 32 | 939 |
| 2022 | 38 | 825 |
| 2023 | 37 | 857 |
| 2024 | 39 | 826 |
| 2025 | 31 | 976 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 吉迪恩
- French: Gédéon
- Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן
- Hindi: गिडियन
- Italian: Gedeone
- Ukrainian: Ґедео́н

## People named Gideon

- Gideon Mantell, British scientist and obstetrician (1790–1852)
- Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian general (1717–1790)
- Gideon Mensah, association football player
- Gideon Welles, American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 (1802–
- Gideon Jung, German footballer of Ghanaian descent
- Gideon Emery, British actor
- Gideon Klein, Czech composer (1919–1945)
- Gideon Lee, American politician (1778-1841)
- Gideon C. Moody, American senator (1832–1904)
- Gideon Granger, American Postmaster General (1767-1822)
- Gideon Tomlinson, American politician (1780-1854)
- Gideon Brand van Zyl, former Governor-General of South Africa

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.