Gerhard Forename
941st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 960,441 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Austria
Gerhard Forename Definition:
A Teutonic name, meaning: Hardy fighter.
Gerhard Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 805,112 | 1:120 | 16 |
| Austria | 100% | 97,661 | 1:87 | 10 |
| South Africa | 100% | 19,059 | 1:2,861 | 514 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 8,670 | 1:947 | 208 |
| United States | 100% | 6,755 | 1:53,669 | 2,951 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 3,572 | 1:4,732 | 737 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,188 | 1:15,143 | 1,521 |
| Namibia | - | 1,899 | 1:1,266 | 263 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,502 | 1:142,634 | 7,085 |
| Australia | - | 1,134 | 1:12,044 | 1,043 |
| Denmark | - | 871 | 1:6,486 | 669 |
| Ghana | 100% | 843 | 1:32,012 | 2,007 |
| Sweden | 100% | 810 | 1:12,170 | 1,004 |
| Czechia | 100% | 770 | 1:13,839 | 494 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 758 | 1:40,650 | 4,986 |
| Norway | 100% | 662 | 1:7,753 | 767 |
| Italy | 100% | 635 | 1:96,161 | 1,855 |
| England | 100% | 625 | 1:88,965 | 3,487 |
| Poland | 95% | 565 | 1:67,305 | 1,669 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 537 | 1:19,425 | 1,833 |
| Mexico | 100% | 526 | 1:236,016 | 3,889 |
| Belgium | 100% | 447 | 1:25,705 | 1,751 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 406 | 1:635,378 | 44,723 |
| New Zealand | - | 399 | 1:11,369 | 1,145 |
| Thailand | 100% | 362 | 1:193,552 | 12,949 |
| France | 100% | 323 | 1:205,791 | 3,285 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 267 | 1:27,104 | 1,466 |
| Spain | 100% | 227 | 1:204,978 | 4,125 |
| Portugal | - | 175 | 1:59,491 | 1,934 |
| Chile | 97% | 170 | 1:103,572 | 2,607 |
| Romania | 100% | 167 | 1:120,072 | 5,008 |
| Philippines | 100% | 156 | 1:679,548 | 20,697 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 118 | 1:321 | 80 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 109 | 1:48,716 | 748 |
| Egypt | - | 108 | 1:850,935 | 16,903 |
| Bolivia | - | 104 | 1:101,937 | 2,604 |
| Albania | 100% | 102 | 1:29,868 | 3,313 |
| Hungary | 100% | 95 | 1:103,071 | 737 |
| Estonia | 100% | 88 | 1:14,948 | 1,431 |
| Greece | 100% | 81 | 1:134,994 | 3,251 |
| Finland | 100% | 78 | 1:70,297 | 2,003 |
| Croatia | 100% | 72 | 1:58,570 | 1,863 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 72 | 1:419,471 | 11,915 |
| Israel | 94% | 68 | 1:123,572 | 4,825 |
| Peru | 100% | 58 | 1:548,129 | 9,428 |
| Japan | - | 57 | 1:2,245,369 | 20,551 |
| China | - | 55 | 1:24,837,378 | 60,674 |
| Scotland | 100% | 53 | 1:100,950 | 2,398 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 48 | 1:149,000 | 10,084 |
| Ecuador | - | 45 | 1:393,932 | 4,782 |
| Botswana | - | 37 | 1:59,039 | 5,548 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 36 | 1:68,299 | 2,406 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Belize | 100% | 27 | 1:13,123 | 1,763 |
| Serbia | 100% | 26 | 1:274,835 | 3,965 |
| Mozambique | - | 25 | 1:1,089,734 | 1,713 |
| Guam | - | 24 | 1:6,694 | 1,054 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 23 | 1:24,524 | 1,332 |
| Cameroon | - | 22 | 1:982,296 | 26,157 |
| DR Congo | - | 21 | 1:3,515,600 | 73,131 |
| Russia | 100% | 21 | 1:6,868,272 | 29,833 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 20 | 1:1,522,497 | 47,664 |
| Wales | 100% | 20 | 1:154,715 | 3,118 |
| Ireland | 100% | 19 | 1:244,396 | 4,129 |
| Argentina | 100% | 19 | 1:2,251,223 | 8,037 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 19 | 1:2,778,333 | 23,004 |
| Singapore | - | 18 | 1:349,281 | 9,934 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 16 | 1:963,989 | 34,627 |
| Hong Kong | - | 15 | 1:516,848 | 4,412 |
| Qatar | 100% | 15 | 1:157,974 | 16,771 |
| Barbados | - | 14 | 1:20,699 | 1,571 |
| Iraq | - | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| India | 100% | 13 | 1:93,452,152 | 1,297,197 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 13 | 1:263,664 | 4,255 |
| Papua New Guinea | 83% | 12 | 1:679,360 | 49,627 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 11 | 1:433,450 | 6,937 |
| Greenland | - | 10 | 1:5,637 | 682 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Malawi | - | 9 | 1:1,901,368 | 9,999 |
| Pakistan | - | 9 | 1:21,595,298 | 106,286 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| Zambia | - | 9 | 1:1,761,644 | 19,373 |
| Curaçao | - | 8 | 1:19,475 | 726 |
| Ukraine | - | 7 | 1:6,499,987 | 10,516 |
| Bahamas | - | 6 | 1:66,562 | 1,346 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Nigeria | - | 6 | 1:29,594,060 | 217,150 |
| Panama | - | 6 | 1:651,093 | 16,250 |
| Tunisia | - | 6 | 1:112,817 | 6,145 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 5 | 1:1,398,078 | 12,856 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 5 | 1:9,825 | 1,060 |
| Guatemala | - | 5 | 1:3,221,686 | 6,935 |
| Honduras | - | 5 | 1:1,763,493 | 15,274 |
| Afghanistan | - | 4 | 1:8,155,879 | 35,337 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Moldova | - | 4 | 1:890,285 | 4,314 |
| Monaco | 100% | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Mongolia | - | 4 | 1:733,704 | 10,632 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| New Caledonia | - | 4 | 1:67,541 | 2,087 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 4 | 1:1,504,584 | 16,652 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 4 | 1:340,355 | 15,394 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 4 | 1:27,437 | 2,836 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 3 | 1:7,923,227 | 99,341 |
| Uganda | 100% | 3 | 1:13,652,307 | 74,436 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 2 | 1:921,573 | 3,058 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Colombia | 100% | 2 | 1:23,889,463 | 63,722 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Jordan | 100% | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Kenya | - | 2 | 1:23,153,555 | 56,680 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Senegal | - | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| Turkey | - | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
The alternate forms: Gérhard (3) & Gerhárd (1) are calculated separately.
Gerhard (16,004) may also be a surname.
Gerhard Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Teutonic name, meaning: Hardy fighter.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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Sample size: 1,566 (2014)
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