Geert

given name · Latin script

Meaning: männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische

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

/ɣeːrt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Geert is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 676(measured from records)
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 41as Екатерина
  • CZCzechia1 in 45as Kateřina

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 Geert 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.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,600,000 named Екатерина, est.

#18 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
624 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 676 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ЕкатеринаCyrillic(measured from records)
CatherineLatin(measured from records)
קתריןHebrew(measured from records)
ეკათერინეGeorgian(measured from records)
ԵկատերինաArmenian(measured from records)
แคทรีนThai(measured from records)
ΚαθρινGreek(measured from records)
ক্যাথরিনBengali(measured from records)
캐서린Hangul(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Екатерина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Ekaterina in CZ Czechia, MD Moldova, Catherine in US United States and Катерина in UA Ukraine.

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)

männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Geert 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.

Where Geert is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#16≈2,600,000 est.≈1 in 54#13Екатерина287
CN China—≈2,100,000 est.≈1 in 668—Екатерина76
UA Ukraine#25≈550,000 est.≈1 in 79listedКатерина160
US United States#29470,588as Katherine1 in 707470KCatherine624
FR France—≈260,000 est.≈1 in 264395KEkaterine80
CZ Czechia#503236,254as Kateřina1 in 45236KEkaterina62
BY Belarus#14≈230,000 est.≈1 in 4116Екатерина70
MD Moldova#44443,869as Ecaterina1 in 7744KEkaterina31
NL Netherlands#12725,5681 in 67626KGeert139

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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Geert is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Spain, France, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gëert

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Геерт

43 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)

Geert is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Low German and Dutch form of GERHARD .

    as a word

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)

12001400160018002000Geert Groote, b. 1340Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, b. 1788Geert Mak, b. 1946Geert Bourgeois, b. 1951Geert Lovink, b. 1959Wilders, b. 1963Geert Hammink, b. 1969Geert Van Bondt, b. 1970Geert De Vlieger, b. 1971Geert Van Rampelberg, b. 1975

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)

InformalHallo Geert,Hi Geert, (English)

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 32 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Geert
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—26K#93
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—16K#240
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020121#50,139
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—66#7,123
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—10#28,743
NL NetherlandsBabynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)———
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Geert mean, and where does it come from?
männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
In which country does Geert have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 million people named Екатерина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Geert most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Geert is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 676 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Geert?
A machine transcription gives /ɣeːrt/ (IPA) for Dutch.
Is Geert a male or female name?
Geert is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Geert?
In the etymology graph, Kay, Gerardo and Gerard are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gerrit.
How common is the name Geert?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25,568 people named Geert, about 1 in 676 residents.
How common is Geert compared with other names?
In Russia, Geert is the 16th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Geert” — the 16th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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