Given name & surname
Gerhart
Gerhart is a surname. It is used in English and Old Dutch.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Gerhart 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 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gerhart through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 201
- 201 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 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 1963. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 148 as a first name in 2020; 4,041 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.
Gerhart’s family of names
In German usage, Gerhart has a related form in Gerhard. In Danish usage, Gerhart has a conventional equivalent in the German form Gerhard. In German usage, Gerhart has a related form in Gerhardt.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gerhart
- Gerhart HauptmannGerman dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
- André GorzAustrian born French philosopher and journalist (1923-2007)
- Gerhart BaumGerman politician (1932–2025)
- Gerhart EislerGerman politician (1897-1968)
- Gerhart M. RiegnerGerman philosopher, and the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress1911–2001
- Gerhart von Schulze-GävernitzGerman politician (1864-1943)
- Gerhart LüdersGerman physicist (1920–1995)
- Gerhart FriedlanderAmerican nuclear chemist (1916-2009)
- Gerhart RodenwaldtGerman classical archaeologist (1886–1945)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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