boys:
2.4k births since 1882
#2562 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1882
#5395 (30th percentile)
The name Gerhard is the #5,395 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,431 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 30.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,562 (44.1% percentile) for all time with 2,431 births since 1882.
Gerhard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Gerhard is available in 118 out of the 139 years between 1882 and 2020. 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.
For boys, Gerhard reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #460) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 147 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerhard".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Gerhard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.6% confident that Gerhard is pronounced as GER-hahrd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAIR-hahrt, at 27.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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