Gerda
Gerda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 892nd, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191549 births
- Best rank
- #892in 1899
- Since 1887
- 1,099people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,099 girls have been named Gerda in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 49 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 49 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1910s alone account for 24%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Gerda was the 949th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Gerda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virgiapeak 1919
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Margueritepeak 1918
- Ernapeak 1916
- Monniepeak 1922
- Izettapeak 1924
- Fredapeak 1918
- Pansypeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.