Gernot
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Germanic *ger- 'spear' + *not- 'need, hardship'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟɛɐnoːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gernot is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- ATAustria
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
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)
from Germanic *ger- 'spear' + *not- 'need, hardship'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- DEGermany
- ATAustria
- USUnited States
- BEBelgium
- PLPoland
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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)
Gernot is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Germanic gari 'spear' + nod 'need, distress'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from *gaira- 'spear' + *nōd- 'need'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
German: from an old Germanic personal name composed of the elements g r , g r spear + n t need, want or perhaps hnod - crush). The same elements are found in reverse order in the name NOTGER .
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)
- Gernot Böhmeb. 1937DEphilosopher (1937–2022)
- Gernot Fischerb. 1937DEGerman politician
- Gernot Rollb. 1939DEGerman cinematographer (1939–2020)
- Gernot Rotterb. 1941DEGerman politician and translator (1941-2010)
- Gernot Erlerb. 1944DEGerman politician
- Gernot Rohrb. 1953DEGerman-French association football player and manager
- Gernot Jurtinb. 1955ATAustrian footballer (1955-2006)
- Gernot Wagnerb. 1980ATAustrian writer and economist
- Gernot Blümelb. 1981ATAustrian politician
- Gernot Traunerb. 1992ATAustrian association football 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 30 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Gernot mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *ger- 'spear' + *not- 'need, hardship' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gernot?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟɛɐnoːt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Gernot a male or female name?
- Gernot 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 Gernot have the most bearers?
- Gernot is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Gernot?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gernotThe 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, “Gernot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.