# Gerrit (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gerrit/  
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 | 2,877 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,877 / 0 (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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 4,148 |
| 2012 | 24 | 4,179 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,040 |
| 2014 | 29 | 3,645 |
| 2015 | 29 | 3,727 |
| 2016 | 21 | 4,674 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,381 |
| 2018 | 19 | 4,990 |
| 2019 | 23 | 4,383 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,079 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,867 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,335 |
| 2023 | 12 | 7,046 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,285 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,689 |

## People named Gerrit

- Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch furniture designer and architect (1888-1964)
- Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (1613-1675)
- Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (1905–1962)
- Gerrit Graham, American actor
- Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch painter (1638-1698)
- Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (1794-1863)
- Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (1923–2015)
- Gerrit Berveling, Dutch Esperanto author
- Gerrit Komrij, Dutch writer (1944–2012)
- Gerrit Holtmann, German footballer
- Gerrit Smith, American abolitionist and politician (1797–1874)
- Gerrit Cole, American professional baseball player (born 1990)

## 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.