Gerard
15
Babies in 2024
-44%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 42
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Gerard
Gerard peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (42 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 15 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Gerard reached its peak in 1997, when 42 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #462 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 15 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 698 boys have been officially registered with the name Gerard in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 229 boys were registered with the name, starting from 27 in 2014 and ending at 15 in 2024.