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Gerta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gerta has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Gerta, 1940

1 in 461,000

Gerta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gerta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gerta means

Gerta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gerta is used in German.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Gerta between 1916 and 1940. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,916 in 1933.

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 Gerta?

Gerta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1940, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1940
1 in 461,000
5 of 2,302,666 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1940
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
319,218 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gerta 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 1940 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 319,218 children born in 1940 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gertas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerta was born before 1933 — so the typical Gerta is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Gerta 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 (6)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,916
1933

Spellings of Gerta

Gerta is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 24.4% against Gerta's <0.01%.

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.

Gerta around the world

Where Gerta 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.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1910–1942
    #776
    in 1942

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gerta 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
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Best rank ever
#3,916
1933
Peak year
1916
6 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1940
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gerta

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

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Sibling names for Gerta

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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