Gericke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of a personal name beginning with the element ger, gar ‘spear’, for example Gerhard (see Gerhardt)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəʁɪkʰə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gericke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 577K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 93K
- UYUruguay1 in 136K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
576 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of a personal name beginning with the element ger, gar ‘spear’, for example Gerhard (see Gerhardt).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gericke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 576 | 1 in 577K | 593 | Gericke | 162 |
| DK Denmark | 63 | 1 in 93K | 63 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 48 | 1 in 947K | 48 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 46 | 1 in 183K | 46 | Gericke | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 25 | 1 in 136K | 25 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | 2 |
576 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Gericke is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, k-Diminutiv und Patronym zu Ger[hard] (ahd./altsächs. gēr 'Speer'); 12 Types/3210 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymische Surnamen; die Karte zeigt gutturale Plosivvariation in -icke/-icke-Formen. Belege u. a. [Ger]icke und [Ger]ike; Fokus Norddtld.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronymischer Familienname germanischer Herkunft; Suffixvariante mit -icke/-ike im selben morphologischen Typ. Belegt mit 3.210 Trägern.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv auf -icke; ck vorherrschend, v. a. im Osten; 45 Types/16428 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, zu ahd./altniederdt. gēr „Speer“, Rufname Ger-; auch Gerecke, Gerke
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Wilhelm Gerickeb. 1845ATAustrian classical music conductor (1845–1925)
- Walter Gerickeb. 1907DEGerman military officer (1907–1991)
- Otto Gerickeb. 1908FRGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander
- Bernhard Gerickeb. 1908DEGerman politician (1908-1967)
- Hans Gerickeb. 1912DEGerman architect and urban planner (1912-2014)
- Lothar Gerickeb. 1950DEGerman swimmer (* 1950)
- Arne Gerickeb. 1964DEGerman politician
- Bradley Gerickeb. 1965USU.S. Army general
- Katharina Gerickeb. 1966DEGerman author
- Carla Gerickeb. 1972ZAAmerican writer, activist, and lawyer born in South Africa
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 593 | #35,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 576 | #38,439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 569 | #41,249 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 63 | #8,507 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 48 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #17,999 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 25 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #50,324 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- 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 Gericke mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of a personal name beginning with the element ger, gar ‘spear’, for example Gerhard (see Gerhardt). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gericke?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəʁɪkʰə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Gericke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 576 people named Gericke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gericke.
- Where is Gericke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gericke is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 93 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gericke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 576 people named Gericke in 2010, about 1 in 577 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gerickeThe 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, “Gericke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.