Gerrard
Gerrard was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,123 among boys’ names; 634 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gerrard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gerrard mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gerrard is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
A less common spelling of Gerard.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gerrard?
#11,123 among boys’ names, 2025
Gerrard fell from #8,261 in 2015 to #11,123 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 3.5 per million.
22 babies in 1990, the peak
Gerrard peaked in 1990, when 22 boys were given it, #2,892 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,123 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,296 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,274 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,762 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,823 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,095 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,823 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,779 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,261 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,592 | 10.9 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #8,332 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,732 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,757 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,570 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,522 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,268 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,988 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,597 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,537 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,275 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,144 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,972 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,070 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,260 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,399 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,141 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,575 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,125 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,324 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,137 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,892 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,107 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,408 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,872 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,206 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,994 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,328 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,128 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,043 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,095 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,157 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,703 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,291 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,962 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,748 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,750 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,961 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,818 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,434 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,465 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,961 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,809 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,694 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,166 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,670 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,781 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,777 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,744 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,161 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,147 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,065 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,034 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,015 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,497 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,876 | 4.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,644 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gerrard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gerrard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gerrard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gerrard, and how old are they?
An estimated 579 Americans named Gerrard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 17 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Gerrard (0 women and girls, 594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 63,646 babies since 1880, Gerrard is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 101 babies (5.9%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gerrard
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gerrard and names like it
- Compare Gerrard and GerardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGerrard peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gerrard since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Gerrard: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Gerrard.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Gerrard alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.