Gerard

Where Gerard comes from

From Middle English Gerard, from Old French Gerart, from Frankish *Gaiʀahard, from *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, brave”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Gerard
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Gerard Kuiper born
    Netherlands-born American astronomer
  3. 1954
    Peak, #177
    1,520 babies named Gerard — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #280.
  5. 1969
    Gerard Butler born
    Scottish actor and film producer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Gerard Butler · Scottish actor and film producer, born 1969
  • Gerard Kuiper · Netherlands-born American astronomer, 1905–1973
  • Gerard Way · American singer, born 1977
  • Gerard Deulofeu · Spanish association football player, born 1994
  • Gerard Moreno · Spanish association football player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.