Gerrit - Meaning of Gerrit

What does Gerrit mean?

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Gerrit

[ 2 syll. ger-rit, ge-rr-it ] The baby girl name Gerrit is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being far more popular. It is pronounced K-EHR-RihT in Dutch †. Gerrit's language of origin is Germanic and it is predominantly used in Frisian. Gerrit is a shortening of the German Gerharde.

A form of the name is the Frisian spelling variant Gerit.

See also the related category frisian.

Gerrit is not popular as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names. In the last century Gerrit has primarily been a boy name.

Baby names that sound like Gerrit include Gerhard, Caraid, Corday, Cordee, Cordett, Cordette, Cordey, Cordi, Cordie, Cordy, Corette, Credah, Crydah, Karidah, Kerthee, Kerthey, Kerthi, Kerthie, Kerthy, and Kerttu.

† Pronunciation for Gerrit: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)"