Gedalia
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Gedalia is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
Is Gedalia a girl's or a boy's name?
Gedalia 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 Gedalia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Gedalia, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.
2025 had the most boys named Gedalia of any year since it first appeared, in 1977.
Half of all the boys named Gedalia in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gedalia in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 7 | #6,962 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,466 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,523 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,843 |
Names like Gedalia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gianluca, Luca, Ezra, Benicio, Gael, Ezekiel, Aziel, Hezekiah, Azriel, Thiago, Leonidas, Eliam
Names related to Gedalia
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, “Gedalia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gedalia, updated 20 October 2026.