Feminine dossier · first seen 1887

Gerda

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Gerda
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1915

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1887Peak 19152024

Peak year

1915

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,099

Gerda has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1915, when 49 girls were named Gerda.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,099 Americans have been named Gerda and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1887.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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