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Gerrod vs Gertrude

American parents have registered 177,668 Gertrudes since 1880, against 736 Gerrods. Gertrude is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gerrod against Gertrude, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gerrod Gertrude

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Gertrude for 125 years and Gerrod for 21 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Gerrod Gertrude
Total US births 736177,668
Most in one year 346,315
Babies in 2025 under 517
Estimated living today 69014,000
Median age today 3780
Peak year 19871917
Best rank 1,864th boys37th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,546th
First recorded 19561880
Girls / boys 0 / 736177,100 / 568

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gertrudes alive today are over 80; half the Gerrods are over 37. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gerrod and Gertrude.