Gerardo
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Meaning
Italian and Spanish form of Gerard (ger "spear" + hart "hard, firm, brave")
The story
Gerardo is the Italian and Spanish form of Gerard, from the Old German elements ger, "spear", and hart, "hard, firm, brave". Behind the Name counts saints under the parent name from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Italy, and notes the Normans carried it to Britain. In American records Gerardo is a Latino classic with a century of presence: on the books every decade since the 1900s, about 13,500 boys in each of the 1990s and 2000s at the height, about 7,100 in the 2010s and about 2,900 so far this decade. Brazil's census carries its own mid-century Gerardo generation: 924 residents born in the 1950s and the same number again in the 1960s. A spear held firmly for roughly a thousand years, passed from German to Norman to Spanish hands, and still perfectly usable at any American roll call.
Gerardo across languages
One shared root links 7 names across 4 languages.
Shared root: two Germanic ger "spear" compounds, Gerald with wald "rule" and Gerard with hart "hard, brave", so entangled in medieval English use that their descendants are shared
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How popular is Gerardo around the world?
In the United States, 2,869 babies were named Gerardo between 2020 and 2025. In Mexico City, there were 132 registrations of Gerardo in 2022.
Gerardo is on the official records of the United States, Mexico City, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Montevideo, Canada, Brazil and Austria.
United States
1 in 7,600
In the United States, 2,869 babies were named Gerardo between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Gerardo peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Mexico City City
1 in 890
In Mexico City, there were 132 registrations of Gerardo in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (8 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Spain
1 in 2,600
In Spain, 17,544 residents are named Gerardo, the 169th most common name among men, with a mean age of 57.9 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Chile
1 in 7,100
In Chile, 25 boys were registered as Gerardo in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Argentina
1 in 10,000
In Argentina, 65 newborns were given the name Gerardo in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Montevideo City
1 in 12,0002011
In Montevideo, 2 boys named Gerardo were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Canada
1 in 46,000
In Canada, 8 boys named Gerardo were born in 2024, ranked 2,328th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Brazil
1 in 48,000
At the 2022 census, 4,291 people in Brazil were named Gerardo, ranked 3,052nd, with a median age of 60.
Among people named Gerardo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1950s as in the 1960s, more than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 22 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Austria
1 in 76,000
In Austria, 1 boy named Gerardo was born in 2025, ranked 1,842nd among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Puerto Rico
last on record 2016
Gerardo is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 522 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
share of that year’s births on record
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
South Australia
last on record 2004
Gerardo is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Gerardo
Most people given the name Gerardo in the United States were born between 1980 and 2009. The Gerardo you meet today is most often in his 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Gerardo deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Gerardo truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Gerardo fits with your family’s names and surname.
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