# Gerardo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gerardo/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 55,254 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 55,015 / 239 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 11,049 |
| 1983 | 9 | 6,897 |
| 1985 | 12 | 5,773 |
| 1986 | 11 | 6,306 |
| 1988 | 6 | 10,810 |
| 1989 | 8 | 9,020 |
| 1990 | 6 | 11,884 |
| 1991 | 16 | 5,756 |
| 1992 | 8 | 9,792 |
| 1993 | 13 | 6,765 |
| 1994 | 12 | 7,261 |
| 1995 | 14 | 6,372 |
| 1996 | 14 | 6,498 |
| 2000 | 10 | 9,412 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,618 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 836 | 359 |
| 2012 | 817 | 371 |
| 2013 | 756 | 398 |
| 2014 | 773 | 402 |
| 2015 | 744 | 418 |
| 2016 | 682 | 453 |
| 2017 | 637 | 470 |
| 2018 | 491 | 560 |
| 2019 | 482 | 578 |
| 2020 | 510 | 555 |
| 2021 | 496 | 569 |
| 2022 | 493 | 581 |
| 2023 | 486 | 589 |
| 2024 | 483 | 595 |
| 2025 | 401 | 678 |

## People named Gerardo

- Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager
- Gerardo Bedoya, Colombian footballer
- Gerardo Bruna, Argentine associiation football player
- José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León, Argentine Catholic priest, bishop of Manzini
- Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess player (1961–2001)
- Gerardo Gandini, Argentinian composer, pianist, conductor and music educator (1936-2013)
- Gerardo, Ecuadorian singer, rapper and actor
- Gerardo Alcoba, football player
- Gerardo Bianchi, Catholic cardinal
- Gerardo Celasco, American actor
- Gerardo Melo Mourão, Brazilian writer and poet (1917-2007)
- Gerardo Alimane Alminaza, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop

## 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.