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Gerard
Pronounced /d͡ʒəˈɹɑɹd/
Rank in 2024
#1,531
Born in 2024
115
Peak year
1956 · #181
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 115 boys were named Gerard, about 1 in every 14,916.
- It peaked in 1956 with 1,617 babies, ranked #181.
- It first shows up in the records in 1886.
- 58,721 boys have been named Gerard since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Gerard per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,223 babies, 0.43 per 1,000. Silent: 10,694 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Boomers: 24,019 babies, 0.64 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,769 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,804 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,362 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,764 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Gerard, from Old French Gerart, from Frankish *Gaiʀahard, from *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, brave”).
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /d͡ʒəˈɹɑɹd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Gerard, CC BY-SA 4.0.