Gerhard

Where Gerhard comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Gerhard.

Gerhard through the years
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #837 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #439
    17 babies named Gerhard, its best rank.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1895
    Gerhard Domagk born
    German bacteriologist
  5. 1944
    Gerhard Schröder born
    Chancellor of West Germany
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.