Gerhard
Where Gerhard comes from
Gerhard hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1882First appearance#837 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1885Peak, #43917 babies named Gerhard — more than any year before or since.
- 1886The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1895Gerhard Domagk bornGerman bacteriologist
- 1944Gerhard Schröder bornChancellor of West Germany
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Gerhard Schröder · Chancellor of West Germany, born 1944
- Gerhard Domagk · German bacteriologist, 1895–1964
- Gerhard Ertl · German physicist, born 1936
- Gerhard Herzberg · German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist, 1904–1999
- Gerhard Richter · German visual artist, born 1932
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.