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Spurgeon

About 1,451 American babies have been named Spurgeon since 1880, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 400 Spurgeons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Spurgeon

By the numbers

Total US births
1,451
Estimated living today
400
Median age today
65
Peak year
1918
Best rank
996th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1880

How old the living Spurgeons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,451 babies given the name since 1880, about 400 are alive — 27 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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 Spurgeon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Spurgeon is most concentrated in North Carolina (20.5×), Alabama (5.9×), Pennsylvania (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular boys’ names the year Spurgeon peaked:

All the names of 1918

Try it on yourself

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.