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Gerrit

#5,687 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Gerard

Gerrit has been given to 2,877 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #5,687 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Gerrit, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gerrit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gerard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gerrit means

Gerrit is a form of Gerard.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Gerrit is used in Dutch.

Gerrit comes through Middle Dutch Gherart, Old Dutch *Gērhard and Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Gerrit is pronounced /ˈɣɛ.rət/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,877 boys were recorded with the name Gerrit between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 1916; its best national rank was #814 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,075 in 2020 to #5,687 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,726 in 2015 to #5,687 in 2025.

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 Gerrit?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,687
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gerrit 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerrit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gerrits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerrit was born before 1974 — so the typical Gerrit is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,875
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.3% of all recorded uses (383).

Is Gerrit 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
+3,593
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+388
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,961
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.7%
Peak was 1916 (49)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#814
1881

Spellings of Gerrit

Gerrit is not the most common spelling — Kermit is, with 23.8% against Gerrit's 4.2%.

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 Gerrit is used

Across 1910–2025, Gerrit was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 93,538 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 10,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 20,000
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Gerrit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gerrit around the world

Where Gerrit 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1952–1968
    #520
    in 1968

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gerrit

People whose public names include Gerrit, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gerrit in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gerrit. Linked forms have their own page here.

GarritGeraldGerardGeroldGirardGerardoGerhardGeertGjertGéraldGérardGellértGeraertGeralltGiraldoGerardus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gerrit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,687
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 388
Best rank ever
#814
1881
Peak year
1916
49 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,877
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Gerrit

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

GersonGeromeGeremyGeraldoGermanGeroldGeronimoGermaineGermainGershonGerhardGerrardGerryGerogeGerrodGerrenGerardAdhritGeremiahGeraltGershomGerberGerradGerron

Names with a curve like Gerrit

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gerrit, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarinoDonatoZebArmondRuebenJoesephRenoCelestinoGennaroPascalBlasAnselmo

Sibling names for Gerrit

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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