Given name & surname
Gerrard
“one who is mighty with a spear”
Gerrard is a variant of Gerard. One English interpretation is “one who is mighty with a spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gerrard is a variant of Gerard. One English interpretation is “one who is mighty with a spear.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Gerrard is a variant of Gerard. An origin associated with Gerard is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gerrard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 634
- 634 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,127 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −37%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,127 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 594 as a first name in 2020; 1,850 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.
Gerrard’s family of names
Gerrard has an alternative spelling in Gerard. Gerrard has a related form in Gerard. In English usage, Gerrard has a conventional equivalent in the German form Gerhard.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 Gerrard
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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