Gerson
given name · Latin script
Meaning: By the 18th and 19th centuries it is a name of Hebraic origin, Baden 1809
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɛɾsõ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gerson is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.8K
- USUnited States1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
77,545 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
By the 18th and 19th centuries it is a name of Hebraic origin, Baden 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gerson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #249 | 77,545 | 1 in 2.7K | 87K | Gerson | 184 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 14 | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Gerson | 42 |
| US United States | — | 8,189 | 1 in 41K | 8.2K | Gerson | 241 |
| AO Angola | #145 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Gerson | 32 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 7,306 | 1 in 3.9K | 7.3K | — | 1 |
| BO Bolivia | #679 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Gerson | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,681 | 1 in 3K | 1.7K | — | — |
77,545 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gerson is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Hebrew 'a stranger there'; compare Kirsche
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
German form or Jewish variant of Gershon.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, from the biblical Rufname Gerson
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, männl. Vom., Nebenform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Peregrino
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gerson von Bleichröderb. 1822DEGerman banker (1822–1893)
- Gus Kahnb. 1886USnot in their usual nameGerman-American lyricist (1886-1941)
- Gerson Goldhaberb. 1924USParticle Physicist and astrophysicist (1924-2010)
- Gerson Mayenb. 1989USassociation football player
- Gerson Martínezb. 1989CLChilean footballer
- Gerson Vieirab. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Gerson Guimarães Juniorb. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Gerson Rodriguesb. 1995PTLuxembourgian association football player
- Gersonb. 1997BRBrazilian footballer Of Vasco Da Gama
- Gerson Torresb. 1997CRCosta Rican footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 87K | #520 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 78K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 77K | #397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.2K | #2,826 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 7.3K | #191 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.7K | #407 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 431 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 225 | #397 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 108 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30 | #2,826 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 14 | #107 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gerson mean, and where does it come from?
- By the 18th and 19th centuries it is a name of Hebraic origin, Baden 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- Is Gerson a male or female name?
- Gerson is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gerson have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Gerson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerson.
- Where is Gerson most common?
- Gerson is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Gerson?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɛɾsõ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- How common is the name Gerson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 77,545 people named Gerson in 2022, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Gerson compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Gerson is the 249th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gersonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gerson” — the 249th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.