Gerhardt

Gerhardt is the 6,741st most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,809 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 62,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,809
Rank: 6,741st
How common: 1 in 62,200
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gerhardt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Gerhardt

Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676)German Lutheran theologian and hymn writer
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856)French chemist
Yannick Gerhardt (born 1994)German footballer
Sonja Gerhardt (born 1989)German film and television actress
Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt (born 1954)East German bobsledder
Wolfgang Gerhardt (1943–2024)German politician
Robert Gerhardt (1903–1989)American rower
Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997)Dutch poet

People named Gerhardt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gerhardt

Also a first name

Gerhardt has been given to 858 American babies as a first name since 1903, peaking in 1916. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.