# Geert (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/geert/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## People named Geert

- Geert Wilders, Dutch politician (born 1963)
- Geert De Vlieger, Belgian footballer
- Geert Groote, Dutch humanist and mystic (1340-1384)
- Geert Bourgeois, Flemish minister-president
- Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Dutch supercentenarian
- Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower (1878-1959)
- Geert Mak, Dutch journalist and non-fiction writer
- Geert Hammink, Dutch basketball player (born 1969)
- Geert Omloop, Belgian road bicycle racer
- Geert Lovink, Dutch academic (born 1959)
- Geert van Istendael, Belgian writer (born 1947)
- Geert Van Bondt, cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.
