Given name & surname · also German
Gehrig
Gehrig is a surname from German, ultimately from Alemannic German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Gehrig comes from German, and ultimately from Alemannic German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1944. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gehrig through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 698
- 698 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 43 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −80%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 12 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 43 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 706 as a first name in 2020; 1,076 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gehrig’s family of names
In English usage, Gehrig as a surname has a related form in GEHRING.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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