Gideon Forename
3,148th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 331,750 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Ghana
Gideon Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew ‘feller' or ‘hewer’ (i.e. ‘great warrior’), the name of one of the Judges over Israel. Adopted as a christian name by the English Puritans and French Huguenots, and still current in the USA.
Gideon Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 66,898 | 1:2,654 | 480 |
| Kenya | 100% | 66,724 | 1:694 | 132 |
| Ghana | 100% | 62,984 | 1:428 | 89 |
| South Africa | 100% | 26,075 | 1:2,091 | 349 |
| Uganda | 99% | 18,537 | 1:2,209 | 331 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 9,095 | 1:5,804 | 912 |
| Zambia | - | 8,762 | 1:1,809 | 346 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 8,466 | 1:1,822 | 335 |
| Malawi | 100% | 7,001 | 1:2,444 | 462 |
| Philippines | 100% | 6,100 | 1:17,379 | 1,920 |
| Israel | 100% | 5,784 | 1:1,453 | 316 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 5,722 | 1:3,777 | 644 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 4,536 | 1:1,797 | 216 |
| Namibia | - | 4,526 | 1:531 | 92 |
| United States | 100% | 4,393 | 1:82,526 | 3,897 |
| Sudan | - | 3,768 | 1:10,034 | 1,267 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 3,714 | 1:69,457 | 8,318 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 3,384 | 1:3,360 | 662 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,365 | 1:90,586 | 5,241 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,992 | 1:8,485 | 1,102 |
| England | 100% | 1,673 | 1:33,235 | 1,808 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1,271 | 1:76,759 | 6,049 |
| India | 100% | 742 | 1:1,637,302 | 91,379 |
| Poland | 100% | 613 | 1:62,034 | 1,561 |
| Canada | 100% | 563 | 1:58,851 | 3,676 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 503 | 1:1,155 | 223 |
| Botswana | 100% | 470 | 1:4,648 | 789 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 408 | 1:75,521 | 8,273 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 383 | 1:192,761 | 8,554 |
| Swaziland | - | 359 | 1:3,622 | 724 |
| Togo | - | 330 | 1:21,937 | 3,753 |
| Germany | 100% | 314 | 1:307,891 | 3,962 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 224 | 1:135,937 | 8,799 |
| Australia | - | 209 | 1:65,347 | 2,816 |
| Liberia | 100% | 199 | 1:22,171 | 1,504 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 193 | 1:7,054 | 1,136 |
| Vanuatu | - | 186 | 1:1,407 | 400 |
| Jamaica | - | 167 | 1:17,265 | 1,548 |
| New Zealand | - | 156 | 1:29,077 | 1,954 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 131 | 1:1,189 | 336 |
| Egypt | - | 130 | 1:706,930 | 15,746 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 109 | 1:1,024 | 153 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 100 | 1:71,520 | 6,063 |
| Singapore | 100% | 93 | 1:67,603 | 6,937 |
| Scotland | 100% | 77 | 1:69,485 | 1,900 |
| Sweden | 100% | 76 | 1:129,709 | 5,185 |
| Suriname | 100% | 66 | 1:8,376 | 1,618 |
| Thailand | 100% | 62 | 1:1,130,094 | 39,264 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 55 | 1:149,336 | 3,951 |
| Wales | 100% | 48 | 1:64,465 | 1,978 |
| Kuwait | - | 47 | 1:80,538 | 6,521 |
| Belgium | 100% | 45 | 1:255,334 | 5,575 |
| Guyana | 100% | 38 | 1:20,086 | 2,477 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 37 | 1:281,926 | 10,232 |
| Mozambique | - | 36 | 1:756,760 | 1,518 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 36 | 1:4,939 | 825 |
| China | - | 35 | 1:39,030,165 | 61,639 |
| Hong Kong | - | 32 | 1:242,273 | 3,429 |
| Italy | 100% | 32 | 1:1,908,190 | 13,475 |
| Portugal | - | 28 | 1:371,817 | 6,212 |
| Grenada | 100% | 27 | 1:4,005 | 688 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 26 | 1:706,903 | 21,562 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 26 | 1:216,445 | 4,451 |
| Qatar | 100% | 26 | 1:91,139 | 11,761 |
| Russia | 89% | 25 | 1:5,769,348 | 26,670 |
| Denmark | - | 23 | 1:245,630 | 5,032 |
| Peru | 100% | 23 | 1:1,382,237 | 16,311 |
| Norway | 100% | 21 | 1:244,397 | 5,727 |
| Finland | 100% | 20 | 1:274,159 | 4,096 |
| South Korea | 100% | 20 | 1:277,221 | 9,162 |
| France | 100% | 19 | 1:3,498,439 | 16,478 |
| Austria | 100% | 17 | 1:500,835 | 4,712 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 16 | 1:443,041 | 536 |
| Ireland | 96% | 14 | 1:331,680 | 4,801 |
| Iraq | - | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 14 | 1:145,714 | 11,276 |
| Spain | 100% | 14 | 1:3,323,569 | 14,016 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 14 | 1:7,839 | 1,133 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 12 | 1:4,269 | 670 |
| Syria | - | 11 | 1:1,755,098 | 3,737 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| Chile | 100% | 8 | 1:2,200,901 | 14,453 |
| Czechia | - | 7 | 1:1,522,309 | 4,223 |
| Benin | - | 5 | 1:2,115,169 | 40,564 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 5 | 1:4,615,187 | 69,481 |
| Venezuela | - | 5 | 1:6,040,379 | 77,223 |
| Angola | 100% | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Eritrea | - | 4 | 1:1,188,244 | 607 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Mexico | 100% | 4 | 1:31,036,107 | 61,748 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 4 | 1:48,589,420 | 158,924 |
| Turkey | - | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Barbados | - | 3 | 1:96,596 | 2,324 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Cyprus | - | 3 | 1:290,359 | 3,456 |
| Greece | 100% | 3 | 1:3,644,849 | 16,562 |
| Japan | - | 3 | 1:42,662,019 | 63,122 |
| Micronesia | - | 3 | 1:35,500 | 1,253 |
| Niger | - | 3 | 1:6,394,665 | 47,369 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 3 | 1:7,923,227 | 99,341 |
| Afghanistan | - | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Albania | 100% | 2 | 1:1,523,285 | 33,816 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 2 | 1:30,650 | 1,815 |
| Jordan | 100% | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Palestine | 100% | 2 | 1:2,275,029 | 4,783 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Argentina | 100% | 1 | 1:42,773,243 | 43,333 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Burundi | 100% | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
The alternate forms: Gidéon (6) & Gideón (1) are calculated separately.
Gideon (65,689) may also be a surname.
Gideon Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew ‘feller' or ‘hewer’ (i.e. ‘great warrior’), the name of one of the Judges over Israel. Adopted as a christian name by the English Puritans and French Huguenots, and still current in the USA.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
‘A destroyer’, ‘a feller’ (of men) in Hebrew. The Biblical Gideon, whose martial exploits seem to have impressed both the Huguenots of the civil wars in France and the Puritans of the Civil War in England, was that Old Testament judge of Israel who freed his people from the yoke of the Midianites. (Yonge.) Now rather rare.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
From Γεδεων, the Greek form of the Scriptural name, in Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן, Gidhón, which Tregelles renders ‘cutter down,’ i. e. brave soldier.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Hebrew (masculine) - Who breaks.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Gid'-e-on, he that bruises, cutting off iniquity. The son of Joash, of the tribe of Manasseh, the same with Jerubbaal, the seventh judge of Israel. See Judges vi, vii., viii.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: the cutter down.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: A hewer: destroyer.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Gideon Forename Popularity
Gideon Demographics
Average Gideon Salary in
United States
$48,171 USD
Per year
Rank:
144,841 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0010787
Rank: 4,140 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
110.66%
Sample size: 1,846 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Gideon Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gideon in the Russian language | ||
| Гидеон | gideon | - |
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