Gad
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Gad is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Gad mean?
Hebrew
A male given name from Hebrew.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Gad a girl's or a boy's name?
Gad is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gad in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Gad, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 1987.
2025 had more boys named Gad than any year since 2016.
Half of all the boys named Gad in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gad in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,794 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,083 |
Names like Gad
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Veer Aarav Ivaan Avyaan Krishiv Avi Vihaan Dhruv Shivansh Ash Atharv Krish
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gad: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gad, updated 20 October 2026.