Is Gerry a male or female name?
Gerry is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 70%, based on 21,911 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 70%
- Sample size
- 21,911
- Confidence
- high
Gerry by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 68% | 21,119 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 100% | 213 | ons |
| Ireland IE | male | 100% | 201 | cso |
| France FR | male | 100% | 155 | insee |
| Canada CA | male | 100% | 112 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 100% | 64 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 100% | 28 | pesel |
Attested in 67 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AG · AT · AU · BB · BD · BE · BI · BW · BZ · CA · CB · CH · CM · CY · DE · DM · ER · ES · FJ · FR · GB · GD · GH · GY · IE · IN · JM · KE · KI · KN · LC · LI · LR · LS · LU · ME · MH · MT · MU · MW · NA · NG · NL · NR · NZ · PG · PH · PL · PW · RS · RW · SB · SC · SE · SL · SZ · TO · TT · TV · UG · US · VC · VU · WS · ZA · ZM · ZW
Gerry over time
In the United States, 67.8% of the babies named Gerry in the 1910s were girls, against 0% in the 2010s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 68% | 255 |
| 1920s | 76% | 1,052 |
| 1930s | 56% | 2,611 |
| 1940s | 41% | 5,037 |
| 1950s | 24% | 5,150 |
| 1960s | 16% | 3,510 |
| 1970s | 14% | 1,561 |
| 1980s | 7% | 868 |
| 1990s | 8% | 585 |
| 2000s | 0% | 293 |
| 2010s | 0% | 134 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Gerry with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Gerry&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Gerry
Is Gerry a male or female name?
Gerry is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 70%, based on 21,911 observations.
Why can the result for Gerry change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Gerry identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.