The Gedeon surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,675 people carried this name — #16,968 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 175,400 people counted. That is up 17% from 1,432 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 140 people named Gedeon.
37 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Guadeloupe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
21 people named Gedeon live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Lucerne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
31 people named Gedeon is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Gedeon,
with a public archive behind them.
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Alajos Gedeon 1875–1926 · writer -
Aladár Gedeon 1882– · politician -
Joe Gedeon 1893–1941 · baseball player -
János Gedeon 1805–1872 · politician
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Louis Gedeon 1878–1950 · military personnel
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Emil Gedeon 1888–1940
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gedeon.
- Gebel 604 · U.S. census
- Geber 185 · U.S. census
- Gebert 1,361 · U.S. census
- Gebhard 1,818 · U.S. census
- Gebhardt 4,981 · U.S. census
- Gebhart 3,367 · U.S. census
- Gee 23,241 · U.S. census
- Geenen 336 · U.S. census
- Geers 1,030 · U.S. census
- Geerts 577 · U.S. census
- Geffre 653 · U.S. census
- Gehan 216 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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