Meaning not yet researched.
Gerard: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 95 in 2025. Its best rank was #177 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #177 in 1954; #1,713 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gerard in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,713 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #177.
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Gerard: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 95 boys in 2025. Peak: #177 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 1,617 (1956).
In 2025, 95 US boys were named Gerard, making it the 1,713th most common boys’ name of the year, down 179 places from #1,534 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 115 boys named Gerard in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #177, reached in 1954. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,617, in 1956. For comparison, it was #1,086 in 2015 and #191 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gerard in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 58,932 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 14,235 babies named Gerard.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,294 US boys were named Gerard; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 161. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,980 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gerard ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #860 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerald (451,351 babies since 1880), Gerardo (55,254 babies since 1880), Gerold (2,966 babies since 1880) and Gerhard (2,429 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jerard and Gerrard are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jerard (1,039), Gerrard (634).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gerard in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #860 | #675 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,013 | #1,042 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,141 | #1,083 |
| New York | 8 | #1,340 | #869 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,431 | #1,219 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,928 | #733 |
| California | 6 | #2,291 | #971 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 95 | #1,713 |
| 2024 | — | — | 115 | #1,534 |
| 2023 | — | — | 130 | #1,409 |
| 2022 | — | — | 128 | #1,428 |
| 2021 | — | — | 121 | #1,483 |
| 2020 | — | — | 119 | #1,456 |
| 2019 | — | — | 116 | #1,480 |
| 2018 | — | — | 149 | #1,241 |
| 2017 | — | — | 161 | #1,166 |
| 2016 | — | — | 160 | #1,186 |
| 2015 | — | — | 180 | #1,086 |
| 2014 | — | — | 202 | #1,013 |
| 2013 | — | — | 183 | #1,049 |
| 2012 | — | — | 171 | #1,091 |
| 2011 | — | — | 172 | #1,084 |
| 2010 | — | — | 140 | #1,253 |
| 2009 | — | — | 130 | #1,335 |
| 2008 | — | — | 126 | #1,357 |
| 2007 | — | — | 100 | #1,568 |
| 2006 | — | — | 117 | #1,377 |
| 2005 | — | — | 113 | #1,336 |
| 2004 | — | — | 124 | #1,225 |
| 2003 | — | — | 134 | #1,132 |
| 2002 | — | — | 156 | #999 |
| 2001 | — | — | 146 | #1,017 |
| 2000 | — | — | 194 | #824 |
| 1999 | — | — | 175 | #864 |
| 1998 | — | — | 175 | #838 |
| 1997 | — | — | 190 | #778 |
| 1996 | — | — | 195 | #760 |
| 1995 | — | — | 213 | #736 |
| 1994 | — | — | 258 | #650 |
| 1993 | — | — | 250 | #652 |
| 1992 | — | — | 268 | #632 |
| 1991 | — | — | 309 | #575 |
| 1990 | — | — | 350 | #527 |
| 1989 | — | — | 326 | #535 |
| 1988 | — | — | 327 | #507 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,290 | 314 | #506 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,984 | 330 | #479 |
| 1985 | — | — | 343 | #468 |
| 1984 | — | — | 336 | #460 |
| 1983 | — | — | 303 | #486 |
| 1982 | — | — | 366 | #441 |
| 1981 | — | — | 316 | #468 |
| 1980 | — | — | 342 | #453 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,717 | 336 | #440 |
| 1978 | — | — | 337 | #435 |
| 1977 | — | — | 348 | #423 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,558 | 367 | #405 |
| 1975 | — | — | 399 | #392 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,023 | 387 | #394 |
| 1973 | — | — | 377 | #401 |
| 1972 | — | — | 399 | #394 |
| 1971 | — | — | 516 | #355 |
| 1970 | — | — | 547 | #346 |
| 1969 | — | — | 543 | #334 |
| 1968 | — | — | 585 | #312 |
| 1967 | — | — | 665 | #280 |
| 1966 | — | — | 795 | #257 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,857 | 827 | #256 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,113 | 1,023 | #237 |
| 1963 | — | — | 1,072 | #229 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,010 | 1,121 | #228 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,078 | 1,309 | #215 |
| 1960 | — | — | 1,397 | #205 |
| 1959 | — | — | 1,399 | #205 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,409 | 1,475 | #191 |
| 1957 | — | — | 1,517 | #189 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,617 | #180 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,161 | 1,521 | #179 |
| 1954 | — | — | 1,520 | #177 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,366 | #186 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,922 | 1,338 | #184 |
| 1951 | — | — | 1,303 | #183 |
| 1950 | — | — | 1,160 | #191 |
| 1949 | — | — | 1,044 | #197 |
| 1948 | — | — | 972 | #202 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,605 | 983 | #202 |
| 1946 | — | — | 884 | #197 |
| 1945 | — | — | 681 | #210 |
| 1944 | — | — | 720 | #205 |
| 1943 | — | — | 770 | #205 |
| 1942 | — | — | 832 | #193 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,653 | 689 | #200 |
| 1940 | — | — | 553 | #224 |
| 1939 | — | — | 521 | #228 |
| 1938 | — | — | 536 | #224 |
| 1937 | — | — | 478 | #243 |
| 1936 | — | — | 468 | #241 |
| 1935 | — | — | 525 | #225 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,540 | 545 | #220 |
| 1933 | — | — | 536 | #215 |
| 1932 | — | — | 542 | #221 |
| 1931 | — | — | 551 | #222 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,811 | 601 | #215 |
| 1929 | — | — | 552 | #230 |
| 1928 | — | — | 594 | #222 |
| 1927 | — | — | 629 | #212 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,036 | 586 | #228 |
| 1925 | — | — | 554 | #236 |
| 1924 | — | — | 541 | #248 |
| 1923 | — | — | 554 | #238 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,301 | 542 | #242 |
| 1921 | — | — | 530 | #244 |
| 1920 | — | — | 408 | #275 |
| 1919 | — | — | 410 | #263 |
| 1918 | — | — | 447 | #252 |
| 1917 | — | — | 413 | #248 |
| 1916 | — | — | 359 | #265 |
| 1915 | — | — | 323 | #272 |
| 1914 | — | — | 236 | #291 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,386 | 201 | #272 |
| 1912 | — | — | 149 | #294 |
| 1911 | — | — | 89 | #277 |
| 1910 | — | — | 49 | #366 |
| 1909 | — | — | 39 | #392 |
| 1908 | — | — | 30 | #441 |
| 1907 | — | — | 32 | #398 |
| 1906 | — | — | 25 | #445 |
| 1905 | — | — | 25 | #435 |
| 1904 | — | — | 18 | #523 |
| 1903 | — | — | 11 | #711 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #884 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #514 |
| 1900 | — | — | 11 | #806 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,105 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,199 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,126 |
| 1896 | — | — | 10 | #747 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #566 |
| 1894 | — | — | 9 | #756 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,136 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #727 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #692 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,020 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).