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Gerhardt

Boys' name

Form of Gerard

Gerhardt has been given to 858 babies in the U.S. since 1903. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Gerhardt, 1999

1 in 738,000

Gerhardt over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gerhardt: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gerard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gerhardt means

Gerhardt is a form of Gerard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gerhardt is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt/ for Gerhardt.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Gerhardt is a form of Gerard. Gerard has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Gerhardt comes through Old High German Gērhart and Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerard and Gérard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Gerhardt is pronounced /ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 858 boys were recorded with the name Gerhardt between 1903 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1916; its best national rank was #958 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gerhardt?

Gerhardt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gerhardt sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerhardt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gerhardts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerhardt was born before 1925 — so the typical Gerhardt is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
83
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1920s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (280).

Is Gerhardt rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (45)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#958
1916

Spellings of Gerhardt

Gerhardt is not the most common spelling — Gerard is, with 50.0% against Gerhardt's 0.73%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gerhardt is used

Across 1910–2025, Gerhardt was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 181,999 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Connecticut1 in —
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gerhardt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gerhardt around the world

Where Gerhardt ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1951–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gerhardt by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#958
1916
Peak year
1916
45 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
858
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gerhardt

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GeremiahGershonGermainGermaineGerrardGeronimoGertrudeGeraldoGeremyGeromeGeraldineGershomGerrickGerrellGergoryGerritGerogeGerrodGervontaGerhardReinhardtGersonGerrenGerritt

Sibling names for Gerhardt

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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