Ger

loc · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A yurt

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ger is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland
  • USUnited States
  • TNTunisia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
219 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

throwing spear used by Germanic peoples

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ger is read(measured from records)

Ger is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English58%

    A yurt.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German6.8%

    throwing spear used by Germanic peoples

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    from Germanic *ger- 'spear'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—906Ger219
PL Poland—8Ger1
TN Tunisia——Ger2
MA Morocco——Ger6
BE Belgium——Ger18
IN India—871—19
NL Netherlands—525—87
ES Spain—187—19

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ger is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Spain, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gěř, Ğēř, Gér, ̈ger

  • French name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Poland, Canada

    Also written Gér, Gęr, ́ger, ̈ger, Gêr

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Syria, Türkiye

    Also written Ğer, Gér, Geŕ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gèr, Gér

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gër

  • Swedish name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Gêr, Gėr, Gér, Gēr, ̈ger

  • Russian surname30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Гер, Hare, Жер, Гуер, Гёр

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ger is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In xgn-pro, yurt, house

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Sundanese, word used for anything that occurs with roaring, rustling or clamor (_ger peraŋ_ outbreak of hostilities', _ger hujan_ 'heavy rain, etc.)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Swedish, present indicative of ge, contracted from the archaic giver

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Ger Stroker, b. 1916Ger Klein, b. 1925Ger van Mourik, b. 1931Ger Blok, b. 1939Ger van Elk, b. 1941Ger Thijs, b. 1948Ger Ryan, b. 1950Ger Koopmans, b. 1962Ger Senden, b. 1971Ger Duany, b. 1978

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Ger
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020906#10,955
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—525#1,582
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020286#10,955
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—123#7,130
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—110#5,233
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199133—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199430—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199030—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198926—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199325—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—24#17,689
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199222—

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Ger come from?
throwing spear used by Germanic peoples Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Ger mean?
In English, A yurt.
In which country does Ger have the most bearers?
Ger is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled ger.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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