Given name & surname
Gery
“one who is flexible”
Gery is a variant of Geary. One English interpretation is “one who is flexible.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gery is a variant of Geary. One English interpretation is “one who is flexible.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Gery is a variant of Geary. An origin associated with Geary is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1939. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gery through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 758
- 758 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 53 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 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 53 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 871 as a first name in 2020; 531 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gery
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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