Gehrig — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gehrig

The Social Security Administration has registered 698 babies named Gehrig between 1944 and 2022, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gehrig currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 43 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gehrig performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 324 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Gehrig shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Gehrig in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gehrig in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 698 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.