Gerri
Gerri was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 5,463 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,480 Americans named Gerri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 54 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gerri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gerri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gerri is “a diminutive of the female given name Geraldine, also used as a formal given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gerri?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,617, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
226 babies in 1958, the peak
Gerri peaked in 1958, when 226 girls were given it, #660 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #15,617 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,369 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,765 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,413 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,181 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,286 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,759 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,773 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,429 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,758 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 16 | #5,816 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,239 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,811 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,338 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,413 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,719 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,938 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,323 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,160 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,620 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,282 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,722 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 78 | #1,375 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 75 | #1,409 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,144 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 113 | #1,033 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 120 | #994 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 106 | #1,114 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 141 | #916 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 174 | #770 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 170 | #764 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 157 | #798 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 143 | #836 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 151 | #808 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 204 | #728 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 192 | #741 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 191 | #750 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 202 | #735 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 196 | #722 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 221 | #672 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 226 | #660 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 189 | #726 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 131 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 136 | #830 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 121 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 121 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 98 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 89 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 68 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 60 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 72 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 105 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 77 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 64 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 67 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 44 | #1,091 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,229 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,137 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,056 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,243 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,931 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,290 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gerri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gerri has been given almost only to girls: 17 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gerri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gerri, and how old are they?
4,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 5,463 Americans ever recorded as Gerri. The median Gerri alive today is 62 years old; half are between 54 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 5,001 people named Gerri (4,919 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,772 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 203 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,610 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 445 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 52 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Gerri born?
The states with the most babies named Gerri are California, New York and Ohio, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 408 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 340 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 301 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 296 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 269 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 208 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 172 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 91 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 74 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gerri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 15,083 babies since 1880, Gerri is the second most given (36% of them).
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 Gerri
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 Gerri and names like it
- Compare Gerri and GeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGerri peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gerri since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Gerri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gerri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.