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Gerrie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Gerhardus

Gerrie has been given to 1,378 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1947, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Gerrie, 1984

1 in 436,000

Gerrie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gerrie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Gerhardus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gerrie means

Gerrie is a diminutive of Gerhardus.

Origin, language, and formation

Gerrie is used in English, Afrikaans and Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerhardus, Gerrit, Gerard and Gerardus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Gerrie is pronounced /ˈɣɛ.ri/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,367 girls were recorded with the name Gerrie between 1918 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,230 in 1941.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Gerrie between 1948 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1969; its best national rank was #3,873 in 1948.

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 Gerrie?

Gerrie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 436,000
8 of 3,488,451 births
Among girls only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
302,252 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gerrie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 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 302,252 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gerries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerrie was born before 1950 — so the typical Gerrie is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
699
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1940s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (380).

Is Gerrie 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 1947 (50)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,230
1941

Spellings of Gerrie

Gerrie is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 38.3% against Gerrie's 0.20%.

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 Gerrie is used

Across 1910–2025, Gerrie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 371,473 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Gerrie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gerrie around the world

Where Gerrie 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
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

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

Gerrie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,230
1941
Peak year
1947
50 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
1,367
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,873
1948
Peak year
1969
6 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gerrie

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

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Sibling names for Gerrie

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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