Given name & surname · also Punjabi
Gera
Gera is a surname from Punjabi, ultimately from Hungarian. It is used in English and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Gera comes from Punjabi, and ultimately from Hungarian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gera through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 136
- 0 boys · 136 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 375 as a first name in 2020; 754 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.
Gera’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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