Gerritt
Gerritt was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gerritt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gerritt?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,300, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1981, the peak
Gerritt peaked in 1981, when 11 boys were given it, #3,689 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,300 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,913 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,981 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,231 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,608 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,692 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,150 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,399 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,678 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,143 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 9 | #6,018 | 4.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,926 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,481 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,613 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,699 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,208 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,107 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,772 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,689 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,131 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,398 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,706 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,770 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,024 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,326 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,235 | 4.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,673 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,272 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,803 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,585 | 2.9 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,590 | 4.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,150 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gerritt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gerritt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gerritt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gerritt, and how old are they?
An estimated 205 Americans named Gerritt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Gerritt (0 women and girls, 298 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Gerritt?
Gerritt is a less common spelling of Gerrit: SSA has recorded 231 Gerritt and 2,877 Gerrit since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,200 babies since 1880, Gerritt is the second most given (7.2% 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 Gerritt
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 Gerritt and names like it
- Compare Gerritt and GerritBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGerritt peaked in 1981.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Gerritt.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Gerritt alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.