Gerrit
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: a male given name, equivalent to English Gerard
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɣɛrət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gerrit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 169(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.8K
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
102,094 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Contracted form of 'get it', representing slurred pronunciation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gerrit is read(measured from records)
Gerrit is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Dutch35%
a male given name, equivalent to English Gerard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gerrit in German.
- English25%
Contracted form of 'get it', representing slurred pronunciation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gerrit 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #85 | 102,094 | 1 in 169 | 102K | Gerrit | 168 |
| ZA South Africa | #531 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Gerrit | 74 |
| DE Germany | #636 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 1 | Gerrit | 186 |
| US United States | — | 2,272 | 1 in 146K | 2.3K | Gerrit | 228 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Gerrit | 88 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gerrit | 28 |
102,094 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register. 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)
Gerrit 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 Frisian form of GERHARD , current predominantly in the North Rhine area. Variants: Low German: Ge(e)rt. Frisian: Garrit; Gerritt (E. Frisian) .
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)
- Geert Grooteb. 1340NLnot in their usual nameDutch humanist and mystic (1340-1384)
- Gerrit van Honthorstb. 1592NLDutch Golden Age painter (1592-1656)
- Gerrit Doub. 1613NLDutch painter (1613-1675)
- Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheydeb. 1638NLDutch painter (1638-1698)
- Gerrit Smith Millerb. 1869USU.S. zoologist and botanist (1869–1956)
- Gerrit Rietveldb. 1888NLDutch furniture designer and architect (1888-1964)
- Gerrit Grahamb. 1949USAmerican actor
- Anton Corbijnb. 1955NLnot in their usual nameDutch film director, video director and photographer (born 1955)
- Giedo van der Gardeb. 1985NLnot in their usual nameDutch racing driver
- Gerrit Coleb. 1990USAmerican professional baseball player (born 1990)
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 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 102K | #22 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 71K | #21 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,897 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 89 | #191 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 68 | #7,008 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #6,897 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2014 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Gerrit come from?
- Contracted form of 'get it', representing slurred pronunciation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gerrit?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣɛrət/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Gerrit mean?
- In Dutch, a male given name, equivalent to English Gerard
- Is Gerrit a male or female name?
- Gerrit is a male 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 Gerrit?
- In the etymology graph, Gerardo, Gerard and Gerhard are forms of the same name in other languages; Gerd, Gert and Geert are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Gerrit have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Gerrit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerrit.
- Where is Gerrit most common?
- Gerrit is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 169 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gerrit?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 102,094 people named Gerrit, about 1 in 169 residents.
- How common is Gerrit compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Gerrit is the 85th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gerritThe 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, “Gerrit” — the 85th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.