Gilman
Recorded 1887–1993 · United States
Gilman was most popular in 1918, when 34 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,370 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 935 people named Gilman.
Gilman over time
How old is the name Gilman?
Gilman first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1887, which makes it about 138 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 61 of the 139 years since. It was last recorded in 1993.
How many people are named Gilman?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 935 American births named Gilman between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 228 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Gilman in 2025?
Gilman was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Gilman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Gilman is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 935 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Gilman?
Roughly 228 Americans named Gilman are alive today — 24% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 67 and 83.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Gilman is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org