Gerry

At the 2020 census, 2,530 Americans bore the surname Gerry — 11,833rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,530
Rank: 11,833rd
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Gerry

Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814)vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814

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

Surnames like Gerry

Also a first name

Gerry has been given to 21,125 American babies as a first name since 1904, peaking in 1958. 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.