girls:
6.7k births since 1910
#2012 (65th percentile)
boys:
14.5k births since 1904
#970 (79th percentile)
overall:
21.1k births since 1904
#1759 (77th percentile)
The name Gerry is the #1,759 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,108 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 77.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #970 (78.9% percentile) for all time with 14,452 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #2,012 (64.8% percentile) for all time with 6,656 births since 1910.
Gerry first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1910 for girls). Birth data for Gerry is available in 116 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023 (113 years for boys and 82 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 Gerry has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.5% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Gerry were boys.
For boys, Gerry reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 51.5% percentile (ranked #323) with 243 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 243 births per million (ranked 51.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gerry ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gerry reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 35.0% percentile (ranked #408) with 174 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 176 births per million (ranked 31.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerry".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gerry is pronounced as JEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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