Gerrie

Where Gerrie comes from

The dictionaries list Gerrie as a given name — a unisex given name from Afrikaans or Dutch — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Afrikaans
  • Dutch
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,291 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Peak, #1,222
    38 babies named Gerrie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,960.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Afrikaans or Dutch.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Gerrie hasn't yet.

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.