Gerren — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gerren

The Social Security Administration has registered 552 babies named Gerren between 1976 and 2012, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gerren currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Gerren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gerren performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 323 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Gerren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Gerren in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gerren 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 552 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.