Gery
Gery was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 758 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gery?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,187, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1956, the peak
Gery peaked in 1956, when 53 boys were given it, #1,036 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #13,187 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,036 | 2.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,216 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,883 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,653 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,575 | 2.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,699 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,754 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,598 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,601 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #6,197 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,584 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,025 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,365 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,247 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,762 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,425 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,153 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,490 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,661 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,841 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,950 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,248 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,856 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,870 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 26 | #1,579 | 12.2 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,443 | 14.5 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,533 | 12.6 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,610 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,304 | 16.7 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,036 | 25.1 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,191 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,343 | 15.7 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,220 | 19.3 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,035 | 25.2 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,101 | 22.8 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,348 | 16.2 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,891 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,577 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,021 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,003 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,642 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,959 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,458 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,438 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,978 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,972 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,253 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gery has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gery, and how old are they?
An estimated 523 Americans named Gery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 871 people named Gery (48 women and girls, 823 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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 Gery?
Gery is a less common spelling of Gerry: SSA has recorded 758 Gery and 21,125 Gerry since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 31,506 babies since 1880, Gery is the fourth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 261 babies recorded by SSA was a Gery (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gery
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 Gery and names like it
- Compare Gery and GerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGery peaked in 1956.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gery since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Gery.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gery alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.