Gerhart
Gerhart is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
- German
Meaning & Origin of Gerhart
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Gerhart is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- German
The Story of Gerhart
Gerhart first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1912, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1915: 14 births, good for #1,968 nationwide. About 37% of every Gerhart on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Gerhart last appeared in the published SSA data in 1963, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 201 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Gerhart
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Names that sound like Gerhart
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About the name Gerhart
Gerhart is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1912 and has accumulated 201 births in the dataset. Gerhart's peak popularity came in 1915 when it ranked #1,968. Use the chart and map above to compare Gerhart'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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