Gerd
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Short form of Gerhard, Germanic ger + hard, 'spear' + 'strong'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɛʁt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gerd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 492(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.2K
- NONorway1 in 577
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gerd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 492 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gert in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Gerhard, Germanic ger + hard, 'spear' + 'strong'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gerd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #113 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 492 | 1 | Gerd | 247 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,228 | 1 in 629 | 16K | Gerd | 43 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,475 | 1 in 577 | 26K | Gerd | 33 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5,760as Gert | 1 in 1K | 5.8K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,797as Gert | 1 in 3.6K | 4.8K | Gert | 39 |
| AT Austria | #371 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 243 | Gerd | 97 |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gerd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a diminutive of the male given name Gerhard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Frey's wife in Scandinavian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, mythology
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, ) Gert: männl. Vom., durch
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Reduced form of GERHARD.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Gerhard Mercatorb. 1512BEnot in their usual nameFlemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
- Gerhard Domagkb. 1895DEnot in their usual nameGerman bacteriologist (1895-1964)
- Claus von Amsbergb. 1926DEnot in their usual nameConsort of the Netherlands (1980 - 2002)
- Gerhard Richterb. 1932DEnot in their usual nameGerman visual artist (b. 1932)
- Gerhard Ertlb. 1936DEnot in their usual nameGerman physicist
- Gerhard Schröderb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameChancellor of West Germany (1998–2005)
- Gerd Müllerb. 1945DEGerman footballer (1945–2021)
- Gerd Binnigb. 1947DEGerman physicist (born 1947)
- Dan Brownb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist (born 1964)
- Jens Lehmannb. 1969DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player (born 1969)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Gerd mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Gerhard, Germanic ger + hard, 'spear' + 'strong'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Gerd a male or female name?
- Gerd is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gerd have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Gerd in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerd.
- How do you pronounce Gerd?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɛʁt/ (IPA) for German.
- What are other forms of the name Gerd?
- In the etymology graph, Gerry, Gert and Geert are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gerhard.
- How common is the name Gerd?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16,228 people named Gerd, about 1 in 629 residents.
- How common is Gerd compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gerd is the 113th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gerdThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gerd” — the 113th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.