Recorded 1904–2025 · United States
Gerry was most popular in 1957, when 637 American babies were given the name — ranking #655 that year. In 2025 it ranked #18,449, with 8 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 21,125 people named Gerry.
Gerry first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1904, which makes it about 121 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 118 of the 122 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 21,125 American births named Gerry between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 13,191 are estimated to be alive today.
8 American babies were named Gerry in 2025, ranking #18,449 that year.
Gerry is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 13 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Gerry is a unisex name — 31.5% of the 21,125 Americans given it were girls and 68.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 1940 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 13,191 Americans named Gerry are alive today — 62% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 67 years old, and half are between 57 and 76.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org