Gerit

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gerit is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany. Recorded meaning: from a short form of the personal name Gerald (from Gerwald, Old High German ger ‘spear’ -l- walt‘rule’).

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • ATAustria
  • NLNetherlands

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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a short form of the personal name Gerald (from Gerwald, Old High German ger ‘spear’ -l- walt‘rule’).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gerit 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 Dutch, past participle of ritten

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Sundanese, the squeaking of the wheels of a _padati_ (kind of cart for transporting goods), or the creaking of a gate or door on its hinges

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of gerō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, scraping sound; gnawing by a mouse or rat

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In poz-cet-pro, sound of scraping or scratching

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

194019601980Gerit von Leitner, b. 1941Gerit Quealy, b. 1960Gerit Kopietz, b. 1963Gerit Kling, b. 1965Gerit Winnen, b. 1974

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

What does the name Gerit mean, and where does it come from?
from a short form of the personal name Gerald (from Gerwald, Old High German ger ‘spear’ -l- walt‘rule’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Gerit a male or female name?
Gerit is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Gerit have the most bearers?
Gerit is most frequently recorded in Germany.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Gerit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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