Gerrie
Gerrie was last recorded in 1984, when 8 babies were given it; 1,378 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gerrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gerrie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gerrie is “a unisex given name from Afrikaans or Dutch.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gerrie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,618, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1948, the peak
Gerrie peaked in 1948, when 53 babies were given it (48 girls, #1,334 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 8 | #7,618 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,324 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,703 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,409 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,476 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,325 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,089 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,621 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,214 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,260 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 17 | #3,751 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,267 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,218 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,842 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,767 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,130 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,495 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,383 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,472 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,560 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,620 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,998 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,178 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,317 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,956 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,958 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,743 | 19.4 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,644 | 21.0 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,064 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,131 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,996 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,324 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,990 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,646 | 18.9 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,737 | 17.5 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,977 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,334 | 28.3 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,291 | 28.2 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,486 | 22.3 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,301 | 29.1 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,412 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,236 | 30.8 |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,234 | 31.1 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,230 | 31.5 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,420 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,314 | 29.2 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,614 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,235 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,711 | 19.2 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,524 | 22.9 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,122 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,993 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,647 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,977 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,472 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,234 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,437 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,611 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,619 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,201 | 8.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,127 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,803 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,597 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,508 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gerrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gerrie has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gerrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gerrie, and how old are they?
An estimated 866 Americans named Gerrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 60 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,010 people named Gerrie (944 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 999 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,947 babies since 1880, Gerrie is the third most given (9.2% 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 Gerrie
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 Gerrie and names like it
- Compare Gerrie and GeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sGerrie peaked in 1948.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gerrie since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Gerrie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gerrie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.