Gideon

At the 2020 census, 4,023 Americans bore the surname Gideon — 7,913th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 74,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,023
Rank: 7,913th
How common: 1 in 74,300
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gideon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.7%
Black, not Hispanic 11.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%

Surnames like Gideon

Also a first name

Gideon has been given to 22,302 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.