Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städtekette, an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east.
Meaning & Origin of Gera
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städtekette, an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east.
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The Story of Gera
Gera first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1954, with 5 babies given the name that year. Its peak popularity came in 1986, when 10 Geras were born — ranking #6,612 that year. As of 2026, Gera ranks #13,386 for baby girls with 5 births, with steady use. In total, more than 136 Geras have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1950s through the 2020s.
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Notable people named Gera
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- Heinrich Reinhold (1788–1825), painter and engraver
- Friedrich August Schmidt (1795–1866), painter, lithographer and porcelain painter
- Otto Lummer (1860–1925), physicist
- Otto Dix (1891–1969), painter and printmaker
- Rudolf Paul (1893–1978), politician, President of Thuringia 1945–1947
- Kurt Günther (1896–1947), SA general and Nazi Party politician
- Charlotte Hohmann (1900–1971), magazine editor-in-chief of Die Frau von heute
- Bernhard Wehner (1909–1995), SS-officer ( Hauptsturmführer ), criminal inspector and journalist
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About the name Gera
Gera is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1954 and has accumulated 136 births in the dataset. Gera's peak popularity came in 1986 when it ranked #6,612. Use the chart and map above to compare Gera's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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