Fewer than five US boys were named Gerhard in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #448, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 62, in 1917. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,367 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gerhard in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 2,429 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 460 babies named Gerhard.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18 US boys were named Gerhard; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 8.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerald (451,351 babies since 1880), Gerard (58,932 babies since 1880), Gerardo (55,254 babies since 1880) and Gerold (2,966 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Erhard are summarised on this page.