Gershom
According to the Bible, Gershom was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.
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Meaning & Origin of Gershom
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
According to the Bible, Gershom was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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- Biblical Hebrew
The Story of Gershom
American parents first put Gershom on the record books as a baby boy name in 1982, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2006, when 12 Gershoms were born — ranking #6,460 that year. About 26% of every Gershom on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Gershom last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 207 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Gershom
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About the name Gershom
Gershom is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1982 and has accumulated 207 births in the dataset. Gershom's peak popularity came in 2006 when it ranked #6,460. Use the chart and map above to compare Gershom's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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