Gerry

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Elbridge, US politician, gave rise t

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gerry is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.6K
  • CACanada≈1 in 3.8K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈95,000 people, est.

Sources
472 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Elbridge, US politician, gave rise t

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gerry 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.

Where Gerry is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈95,000 est.≈1 in 15K—Gerry29
PH Philippines#362≈68,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Gerry121
US United States—15,8831 in 21K12KGerry472
CA Canada#491≈9,900 est.≈1 in 3.8K2Gerry239
GB United Kingdom#803≈7,200 est.≈1 in 9.2K4Gerry246
IE Ireland#190≈3,400 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Gerry116
AU Australia#907≈3,000 est.≈1 in 8.5K1Gerry170
NL Netherlands—1,8881 in 9.2K1.7KGerry71

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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gerry is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gërry, Gèrrÿ, Gérry, Geřry

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malagasy

    Also written Gerrÿ

  • Swahili given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Kenya, Canada

    Also written Gěřřý

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gerry 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.

  • ,2 Pet form of Gerald, Gerard, or Geraldine; it is also sometimes used as a girl’s name. See also pJerry. spelling that suggests Low German, Dutch, or Flemish influence. Variant: Ghislaine.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, Possibly an altered spelling of German Gehri, a variant of Gehr 1.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A diminutive of the male given names Gerald and Gerard.

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

  • In English, term "gerrymander"

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, diminutive of Gerald or Gerard

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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)

19001920194019601980Gerry Duggan, b. 1910Gerry Fisher, b. 1926Gerry Hambling, b. 1926Gerry Anderson, b. 1929Gerry Bamman, b. 1941Gerry Connolly, b. 1950Gerry Becker, b. 1951Gerry Francis, b. 1951Gerry Conway, b. 1952DJ Ötzi, b. 1971

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)

InformalHi Gerry,

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 73 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Gerry
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#1,833
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204K#1,833
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.7K#931
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—978#2,102
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—208#2,824
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—99#8,061
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20258—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20085—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19955—
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)20174#363
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)19823#315
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20222#1,325

Reference works 7

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

Is Gerry a male or female name?
Gerry 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.
What does the name Gerry mean, and where does it come from?
Elbridge, US politician, gave rise t Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Gerry?
A machine transcription gives /dʒɛɹi/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Gerry?
In the etymology graph, Jerry, Kay and Kai are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gerry have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Gerry in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerry.
How common is the name Gerry?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,883 people named Gerry in 2020, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Gerry compared with other names?
In Ireland, Gerry is the 190th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gerry” — the 190th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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