Gipson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Gipp; first attested Robert Gipson 1524 SRSf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡipsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gipson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In New Zealand it is the 58th most common surname.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1Kas Gibson(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3Kas Gibson
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.4Kas Gibson
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gipson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #406 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 577 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11M (inferred from the name graph)
≈800,000 named Gibson, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gibson in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Gipp; first attested Robert Gipson 1524 SRSf
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gipson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈800,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gibson | 26 |
| US United States | #96 | 190,667as Gibson | 1 in 1.7K | 191K | Gibson | 577 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Gipson | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | #79 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Gibson | 330 |
| CA Canada | #90 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 3 | Gibson | 278 |
| AU Australia | #89 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Gibson | 242 |
| NZ New Zealand | #58 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Gibson | 137 |
| GY Guyana | — | 609as Gibson | 1 in 1.2K | 609 | — | 7 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 302as Gibson | 1 in 336 | 302 | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20 | 1 in 11M | 1.4K | Gipson | 25 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Gipson is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, patronymic from Gibb.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Esperanto, accusative of gipso
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Fred Gipsonb. 1908USAmerican fiction writer (1908-1973)
- Joella Gipsonb. 1929USAmerican musician, mathematician, and educator
- Graham Gipsonb. 1932AUAustralian sprinter (1932–2023)
- Paul Gipsonb. 1946USAmerican football player (1946-1985)
- Mike Gipsonb. 1966USmember of the California State Assembly
- Charles Gipsonb. 1972USAmerican baseball player
- Teddy Gipsonb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Tashaun Gipsonb. 1990USAmerican football player (born 1990)
- Thomas Gipsonb. 1993USAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Savannah Jaydeb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,809 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,803 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gipson mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Gipp; first attested Robert Gipson 1524 SRSf Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gipson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡipsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gipson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 798 thousand people named Gibson in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gipson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gipson is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 11 million people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gipson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Gipson, about 1 in 11 million residents.
- How common is Gipson compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Gipson is the 58th most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gipson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gipsonThe 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, “Gipson” — the 58th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.