Gerrit
Gerrit is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 815th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191649 births
- Best rank
- #815in 1881
- Since 1881
- 2,861people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,861 boys have been named Gerrit in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 49 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1990s alone account for 13%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gerrit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 30 | |
| 1910s | 277 | |
| 1920s | 336 | |
| 1930s | 201 | |
| 1940s | 146 | |
| 1950s | 179 | |
| 1960s | 168 | |
| 1970s | 259 | |
| 1980s | 281 | |
| 1990s | 383 | |
| 2000s | 314 | |
| 2010s | 220 | |
| 2020s | 55 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Gerrit was the 903rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Gerrit
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ruebenpeak 1921
- Armondpeak 1924
- Domenickpeak 1925
- Renopeak 1996
- Matthewspeak 1988
- Angelopeak 2007
- Domenicpeak 2003
- Nevillepeak 1975
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.