Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Gero 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 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gero through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 5 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 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 115 as a first name in 2020; 1,213 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.
Gero’s family of names
In Greek usage, Gero as a surname is a transliteration of Γέρο.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gero
- Gero KretschmerGerman tennis playerborn 1985
- Geroarchbishop of Cologne900–976
- Gero II, Margrave of the Saxon Eastern MarchGerman noble975–1015
- Gero BisanzGerman football coach (1935-2014)
- Gero MiesenböckAustrian neuroscientistborn 1965
- Gero von WilpertGerman lexicographer, bibliographer, literary scholar, philologist and university teacher (1933-2009)
- Gero ZambutoItalian actor, voice actor and film director (1887-1944)
- Gero HütterGerman hematologistborn 1968
- Gero CamiloBrazilian actor, dramatist, singer-songwriter, poetborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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