Meaning not yet researched.
Gerry: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #335 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #335 in 1942; #9,186 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gerry in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,186 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #335.
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Gerry: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #335 in 1942 · most boys in one year: 523 (1958).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Gerry, making it the 9,186th most common boys’ name of the year, down 631 places from #8,555 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 boys named Gerry in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #335, reached in 1942. The most boys given the name in a single year was 523, in 1958. For comparison, it was #9,900 in 2015 and #396 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Gerry in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #468, reached in 1943. That year also had the most girls given the name: 250. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #696 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gerry in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 7 babies. In all, 21,125 US babies have been given the name, 32% of them girls and 68% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5,149 babies named Gerry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 117 US boys were named Gerry; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jerry (632,416 babies since 1880), Jerrie (5,596 babies since 1880), Geri (8,026 babies since 1880) and Gerri (5,463 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gerrie, Gerie and Gerrye 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gerrie (1,378), Gerie (22), Gerrye (6).
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 Gerry in the open dataset we use.
Gerry is listed as a nickname for Gerald, Geraldine, Jerry.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,186 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,555 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,435 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,337 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,113 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,326 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,649 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,384 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,436 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,841 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #9,900 |
| 2014 | — | — | 16 | #5,561 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,246 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,151 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,505 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,813 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,508 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,180 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,164 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,410 |
| 2005 | — | — | 34 | #3,040 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,674 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,750 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,776 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,541 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,239 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,522 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,910 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,278 |
| 1996 | — | — | 58 | #1,660 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,200 | 44 | #1,933 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,954 | 49 | #1,786 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,308 | 64 | #1,463 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,285 | 72 | #1,332 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,835 | 59 | #1,488 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,582 | 73 | #1,299 |
| 1989 | — | — | 73 | #1,271 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,447 | 75 | #1,167 |
| 1987 | — | — | 68 | #1,164 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,307 | 68 | #1,146 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,230 | 76 | #1,060 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,452 | 73 | #1,046 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,378 | 79 | #997 |
| 1982 | — | — | 107 | #862 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,359 | 91 | #940 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,043 | 95 | #913 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,530 | 105 | #845 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,511 | 114 | #795 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,739 | 104 | #837 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,434 | 105 | #815 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,216 | 114 | #776 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,240 | 120 | #740 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,468 | 125 | #720 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,619 | 161 | #620 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,305 | 198 | #583 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,094 | 194 | #579 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,069 | 233 | #510 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,923 | 209 | #528 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,668 | 233 | #490 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,865 | 258 | #479 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,657 | 294 | #452 |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,271 | 297 | #462 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,585 | 290 | #463 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,464 | 327 | #438 |
| 1961 | 74 | #1,291 | 376 | #407 |
| 1960 | 99 | #1,083 | 426 | #383 |
| 1959 | 128 | #923 | 484 | #354 |
| 1958 | 111 | #987 | 523 | #336 |
| 1957 | 123 | #926 | 514 | #336 |
| 1956 | 102 | #1,013 | 453 | #347 |
| 1955 | 110 | #941 | 393 | #367 |
| 1954 | 114 | #899 | 336 | #392 |
| 1953 | 118 | #863 | 335 | #378 |
| 1952 | 134 | #770 | 312 | #389 |
| 1951 | 155 | #702 | 259 | #424 |
| 1950 | 154 | #696 | 291 | #396 |
| 1949 | 184 | #608 | 302 | #387 |
| 1948 | 212 | #575 | 335 | #370 |
| 1947 | 233 | #558 | 375 | #353 |
| 1946 | 199 | #564 | 336 | #353 |
| 1945 | 198 | #517 | 276 | #358 |
| 1944 | 182 | #537 | 285 | #353 |
| 1943 | 250 | #468 | 273 | #371 |
| 1942 | 243 | #472 | 330 | #335 |
| 1941 | 187 | #506 | 235 | #378 |
| 1940 | 186 | #507 | 216 | #387 |
| 1939 | 200 | #471 | 169 | #440 |
| 1938 | 175 | #505 | 170 | #443 |
| 1937 | 149 | #548 | 167 | #438 |
| 1936 | 140 | #551 | 134 | #489 |
| 1935 | 140 | #543 | 116 | #537 |
| 1934 | 126 | #576 | 104 | #579 |
| 1933 | 118 | #595 | 80 | #652 |
| 1932 | 152 | #534 | 74 | #724 |
| 1931 | 139 | #555 | 66 | #770 |
| 1930 | 130 | #607 | 63 | #818 |
| 1929 | 107 | #682 | 42 | #1,063 |
| 1928 | 115 | #653 | 42 | #1,085 |
| 1927 | 85 | #788 | 31 | #1,332 |
| 1926 | 101 | #723 | 40 | #1,134 |
| 1925 | 71 | #879 | 20 | #1,759 |
| 1924 | 80 | #841 | 20 | #1,801 |
| 1923 | 68 | #891 | 8 | #3,275 |
| 1922 | 64 | #919 | 21 | #1,723 |
| 1921 | 66 | #914 | 18 | #1,932 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,160 | 10 | #2,849 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,143 | 17 | #1,916 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,423 | 22 | #1,621 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,524 | 13 | #2,216 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,553 | 9 | #2,800 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,175 | 10 | #2,516 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,850 | 6 | #3,051 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,840 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,310 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #1,005 |
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).