Gerrit

Where Gerrit comes from

Gerrit 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
  1. 1613
    Gerrit Dou born
    Dutch painter
  2. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #781
    #781 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1888
    Gerrit Rietveld born
    Dutch furniture designer and architect
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gerrit Rietveld · Dutch furniture designer and architect, 1888–1964
  • Gerrit Dou · Dutch painter, 1613–1675

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.