Gerad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɝæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gerad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 455K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 38K
- NLNetherlands1 in 240K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gerad 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Gerad | 13 |
| US United States | 731 | 1 in 455K | 731 | Gerad | 184 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 548K | — | Gerad | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 696K | — | Gerad | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Gerad | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | 72 | 1 in 240K | 72 | Gerad | 9 |
| IE Ireland | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Gerad | 13 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Gerad | 12 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Gerad 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.
In ang, council, judgement, wisdom, reason
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jean-Pol Caputb. 1937FRnot in their usual nameFrench professor of literature (1937–2001)
- Gerad Adamsb. 1978CACanadian ice hockey defenceman and head coach
- Gerad Parkerb. 1981USAmerican football player and coach (born 1981)
- Gerad DavisUSbasketball player
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 731 | #15,666 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 72 | #5,387 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 40 | #13,414 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 21 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Gerad?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɝæd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Gerad a male or female name?
- Gerad 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.
- In which country does Gerad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Gerad in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerad.
- How common is the name Gerad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 731 people named Gerad in 2020, about 1 in 455 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gerad?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geradThe 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, “Gerad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.