Gerry
Gerry reached its high-water mark in 1958 at number 336, and has been recorded 21,125 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 13,000 Gerrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gerry boys named Gerry
Girls and boys called Gerry
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Gerry crossed from girls to boys in 1940, and has stayed there for 67 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 91 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,125
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 336th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1904
- Girls / boys
- 6,657 / 14,468
How old the living Gerrys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,125 babies given the name since 1904, about 13,000 are alive — 61 in every hundred. Roughly 250 of them are children and 7,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Gerrys
- Gerry Adams (born 1948)Irish republican politician
- Gerry Rafferty (1947–2011)Scottish singer-songwriter
- Gerry Mulligan (1927–1996)American jazz musician and composer
- Gerry Byrne (1938–2015)English footballer
- Gerry Goffin (1939–2014)American lyricist
- Gerry Peyton (born 1956)association football coach and former player
- Gerry Anderson (1929–2012)English television creator and filmmaker
- Gerry Bamman (born 1941)American actor
People named Gerry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gerry is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gerry is most concentrated in Indiana (1.8×), Michigan (1.6×), Missouri (1.6×), Oklahoma (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular boys’ names the year Gerry peaked:
Gerry elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Gerry | 201 | 294th |
| England and Wales boys | Gerry | 199 | 1,903rd |
| France boys | Gerry | 155 | 5,456th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Gerry | 7 | 363rd |
| Scotland boys | Gerry | 7 | 271st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Gerry among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Gerry | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Gerry against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.