girls:
112 births since 1913
#5604 (2nd percentile)
boys:
58.6k births since 1886
#443 (90th percentile)
overall:
58.7k births since 1886
#974 (87th percentile)
The name Gerard is the #974 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 58,716 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 87.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #443 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 58,604 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,604 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 112 births since 1913.
Gerard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Gerard is available in 134 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (134 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gerard has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gerard reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 72.4% percentile (ranked #177) with 728 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 753 births per million (ranked 71.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gerard ranks #786 for boys (13.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 9.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gerard reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #686) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerard".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Gerard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.0% confident that Gerard is pronounced as jer-AHRD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jih-RAHRD, at 16.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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