Gamaliel
Gamaliel reached its high-water mark in 2004 at number 2,102, and has been recorded 1,950 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,181st. About 1,900 Gamaliels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gamaliel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,950
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 2,102nd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,181st
- First recorded
- 1921
How old the living Gamaliels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,950 babies given the name since 1921, about 1,900 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 690 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Middle English Gamaliel, from Latin Gamaliēl, from Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ, from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל, from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל. Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gamaliels
- Gamaliel (100 BC–50)first-century leading authority on Jewish law in the Sanhedrin
- Gamaliel II (100–114)active 80-110
People named Gamaliel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gamaliel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gamaliel is most concentrated in California (5.1×), Texas (4.7×), Florida (1.9×), New York (0.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Gamaliel peaked:
Gamaliel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Gamaliel | 75 | 2,676th |
| England and Wales boys | Gamaliel | 4 | 4,275th |
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.
Related names
Gamaliel 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.