Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Gerasimos isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gerasimos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 198
- 198 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 14 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 boys is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 402 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gerasimos’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gerasimos
- Gerasimos SkiadaresisGreek actorborn 1960
- Gerasimos DanilatosGreek physicistborn 1946
- Gerasimos FylaktouCypriot footballerborn 1991
- Gerasimos MitoglouGreek footballerborn 1999
- Gerasimos PitsamanosGreek architect, painter and sculptor (1787-1825)
- Gerasimos VokosGreek writer (1868-1927)
- Gerasimos ArsenisGreek politician (1931-2016)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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