girls:
5.4k births since 1925
#2267 (60th percentile)
boys:
17 births since 1956
#4569 (0th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1925
#3690 (52nd percentile)
The name Gerri is the #3,690 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,463 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 52.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,267 (60.3% percentile) for all time with 5,446 births since 1925. For boys, it ranks #4,569 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1956.
Gerri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for girls and 1956 for boys). Birth data for Gerri is available in 76 out of the 86 years between 1925 and 2010 (76 years for girls and 3 years for boys). 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 Gerri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gerri reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 27.7% percentile (ranked #553) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 109 births per million (ranked 27.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
For boys, Gerri reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #656) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerri".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gerri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.4% confident that Gerri is pronounced as JEH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GEH-ree, at 42.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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