Gerhardt
Where Gerhardt comes from
Gerhardt 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
- 1794Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern bornBaltic German painter
- 1887Gerhardt Katsch bornGerman physician
- 1903First appearance#1,009 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1916Peak, #95245 babies named Gerhardt — more than any year before or since.
- 1928The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,707.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern · Baltic German painter, 1794–1865
- Gerhardt Katsch · German physician, 1887–1961
- Gerhardt Csejka · German writer and translator, 1945–2022
- Gerhardt Sørensen · Danish rower, 1921–2002
- Gerhardt Alois Westrick · German lawyer and businessman, 1889–1957
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.