Geers
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Germanic element gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’, for example GerHARDT
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɣəɛrs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Geers is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- BEBelgium
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymic from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Germanic element gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’, for example GerHARDT.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Geers is read
(measured from records)Geers 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.
- English68%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Geers in English.
- German13%
Patronym zu Dietrich mit Schwund des d; belegt mit 1292 Tokens. Demonstriert Varianten mit -ers/-res/-ren und ss/ß.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Patronymisch zu Rufname Gerdes/Gerd; 516 Träger. Wohl durch d-Schwund entstanden.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- Dutch6.1%
patronymic from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Germanic element gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’, for example GerHARDT.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edward Geersb. 1851USAmerican harness racer (1851-1924)
- Volker J. Geersb. 1946DEGerman entrepreneur
- Kendell Geersb. 1968ZASouth African artist (born 1968)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Geers mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Germanic element gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’, for example GerHARDT. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Geers?
- In Dutch /ɣəɛrs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Geers have the most bearers?
- Geers is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geersThe 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, “Geers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.