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Gervais

Boys' name

English equivalent of Gervase

Gervais has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1926. 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 2000, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Gervais, 2000

1 in 630,000

Gervais over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gervais: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Gervase

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gervais means

Gervais is a English equivalent of Gervase.

Origin, language, and formation

Gervais is used in French.

Gervais comes through Latin Gervasius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gervase.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Gervais is pronounced /ʒɛʁ.vɛ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Gervais between 1926 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,452 in 1926.

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 Gervais?

Gervais had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 630,000
6 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only
1 in 327,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
436,510 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gervais 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 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gervais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gervaiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gervais was born before 2000 — so the typical Gervais is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Gervais 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (6)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,452
1926

Spellings of Gervais

Gervais is not the most common spelling — Germain is, with 52.7% against Gervais's 0.58%.

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.

Gervais around the world

Where Gervais 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
    2004–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • France
    1900–2015
    #6,611
    in 2015

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.

Gervais 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
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Best rank ever
#4,452
1926
Peak year
2000
6 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gervais

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

GermaneGeremiaGernardGeramieGermaniGerichoGersainGerrieGerranGerrinGerickGermellGeremieGermariGerroldGermarMakaisGervontaGerbenGeromyGerielMataisGerimiahGeraud

Sibling names for Gervais

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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