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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Gerard

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,713

down −179 places

2025 births

95

down −20 births

All-time births

58,820

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
1,617 births
Best rank
#177
in 1954
First recorded
1886
#1,020 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1956
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
136 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19561,617#180Peak
  2. 19551,521#179
  3. 19541,520#177
  4. 19571,517#189
  5. 19581,475#191

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #177 in 1954 · peak births 1,617 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

58,820 boys · 112 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Gerard has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.