Gideon

Hebrew

"hewer; or, having a stump for a hand"

Gideon Origin and Meaning

Variation of Hedeon

Gideon Rank in US Top 1000

# 331 in the US

Gideon Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 120 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Gideon

• 331 US 2024
• 120 Nameberry 2025
• 195 Future 2028
• 837 England 2024

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Famous People Named Gideon

• Gideon Biblical judge
• Gideon Emery British actor
• Gideon Yago American MTV news anchor and writer
• Gideon Lee Yu American businessman and football team owner
• Gideon Hausner Israeli jurist and politician
• Gideon Ariel Israeli biomechanic and athlete
• Gideon Levy Israeli journalist and author
• Gideon Baah Ghanaian footballer
• Gideon Gardner U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
• Gideon Barstow U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
• Gideon Welles 24th U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Gideon Lee U.S. Congressman from New York; 60th Mayor of New York City
• Gideon Coe British radio personality
• Gideon Algernon Mantell English paleontologist who discovered Iguanadon
• Gideon Babe Ruth Howard son of actors Debra Winger and Arliss Howard
• Gideon Scott Burtka Harris (b. 2010), son of actors Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka; twin of sister Harper Grace
• Clarence Gideon criminal defendant whose appeal led to Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright
• Gideon Martyn Forsyth (b. 2018) son of Joy,Anna (Duggar) and Austin Forsyth from "Counting On"
• Gideon Aroni actor
• Gideon Adlon actress and daughter of Pamela Adlon

The name Gideon in Pop Culture

• Gideon Prewett character in the Harry Potter series; brother to Molly Weasley
• Gideon Pontipee character in musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
• Gideon Lightwood character in Cassandra Clare's "The Infernal Devices" trilogy
• Gideon Reader character in the Shapeshifter series
• Gideon character in "Will Grayson, Will Grayson' by John Green and David Levithan
• Gideon Gleeful character on Disney's animated series "Gravity Falls"
• Gideon Cahill ancestor of the Cahill family in the 39 Clues series
• Gideon Seymour character in The Time Travelers/Gideon the Cutpurse
• Gideon mutant in X,Men comics
• Gideon character on TV's "Charmed"
• Gideon duck in British animated series "Gideon"
• Gideon Oliver Dobbs main character in 1998 film "Gideon"
• Gideon Cross aka The Demon Hunter comics character
• Gideon captain of the guard for King Limhi in the Book of Mormon
• Gideon Cross main character in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series
• Gideon female AI on TV's "The Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow"
• Gideon Grey character in Disney's "Zootopia"
• Gideon de Villiers character in the German Ruby Red novel trilogy by Kerstin Gier
• Gideon Reeves character on TV's "APB"
• Jason Gideon character on TV's 'Criminal Minds'
• Ben Gideon main character on TV's "Gideon's Crossing"
• Abel Gideon character on TV's "Hannibal"
• George Gideon of Scotland Yard character in novels by John Creasey
• Gideon (bibles) mentioned in the Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon"
• Gideon Altaire character in James Gurney's series "Dinotopia"
• Gideon Graves main villain of the Scott Pilgrim comics/movie
• Gideon Gemstone character on TV’s “The Righteous Gemstones”

International Variations of the name Gideon

• Gideone Italian
• Gedeon Russian
• Hedeon Russian
• Hadeon Ukrainian
• Gidon Hebrew