Gert

Gert
Pronunciation	/ˈɡɜːrt/; German: [ˈgɛɐ̯t]; Swedish: [ˈjæʈː]; Dutch: [ˈɣɛrt]; Afrikaans: [ˈχɛrt]
Gender	Masculine
Origin
Word/name	Dutch , German, North Germanic, Belgium
Meaning	Gerard
Other names
Related names	Geert, Gerard, Gerd, Gerhard

Gert is a mainly masculine given name (short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.) with some female bearers (short for Gertrude). ^[1] Pronunciation is typically /ˈχɛrt/ in Afrikaans and Dutch, /ˈgɛrt/ in Danish and German, /jært/ in Swedish, and /ˈɡɜːrt/ in English.

Since 1993 no one in Sweden has been baptised as Gert according to the Swedish Bureau of Census,^{[citation needed]} so the name is becoming increasingly rare. In 2010 around 12,000 in Sweden had the name as their first name according to the same source. Gert is most common in Sweden among males over 50 years of age. Around 400 females in Sweden have Gert as their first name according to the Swedish Bureau of Census.

It may refer to:

Men

Gert Aandewiel (born 1969), Dutch football player and manager
Gert Alberts (1836–1927), South African Voortrekker
Gert Andersen (born 1939), Danish handball player
Gert Bals (1936–2016), Dutch footballer
Gert Bastian (1923–1992), German military officer and politician
Gert Bender (born 1948), German motorcycle racer
Gerrit Gert van den Berg (cyclist) (1903-?), Dutch cyclist
Gerrit Gert van den Berg (politician) (born 1935), Dutch politician
Gert Bettens (born 1970), Belgian guitarist
Gert Blomé (born 1934), Swedish ice hockey player
Gert Bolmer (born 1983), Dutch dressage equestrian
Gert Bongers (born 1946), Dutch track cyclist
Gert Boshoff (1931–2014), South African Army lieutenant general
Gert Brauer (born 1955), German footballer
Gert Chesi (born 1940), Austrian photographer, author, journalist and filmmaker
Gert Claessens (born 1972), Belgian footballer
Gert Coetzer (born 1940s), South African rugby player
Gert De Kock (born 1980), South African rugby player
Gert Dockx (born 1988), Belgian road cyclist
Gert Dorbek (born 1985), Estonian basketball player
Gert Dörfel (born 1939), German footballer
Gert Doumen (born 1971), Belgian football goalkeeper
Gert Eg (born 1954), Danish footballer
Gert van Egen (c. 1550–1612), Flemish sculptor active in Denmark
Gert Elsässer (born 1949), Austrian skeleton racer
Gert Engels (born 1957), German footballer
Gert Frank (born 1956), Danish cyclist
Gert Fredholm (born 1941), Danish film director and screenwriter
Gert Fredriksson (1919-2006), Swedish sprint canoer and coach
Gert Fröbe (1913–1988), German actor
Gert Fylking (born 1945), Swedish actor, journalist, politician and anchorman
Gert van Groningen (died 1577), Dutch-born sculptor active in Denmark
Gert Haller (1944–2010), German politician and manager
Gert Handberg (born 1969), Danish motorcycle racer
Gert Haucke (1929–2008), German film and television actor
Gert Heerkes (born 1965), Dutch football manager
Gert Heidler (born 1948), German footballer
Gert Hildebrand (born 1953), German car designer
Gert Hofbauer (born 1937), Austrian conductor and trumpeter
Gert Günther Hoffmann (1929–1997), German actor and director
Gert Hofmann (1931–1993), German writer and literary scholar
Gert Holstege (born 1948), Dutch neuroscientist
Gert Bo Jacobsen (born 1961), Danish boxer
Gert Jakobs (born 1964), Dutch racing cyclist
Gert Jeschonnek (1912–1999), German navy officer
Gert Jõeäär (born 1987), Estonian road bicycle racer
Gert Jonke (1946-2009), Austrian poet, playwright and novelist
Gert Joubert (bor 1948), Namibian businessperson
Gert Kams (born 1985), Estonian footballer
Gert Kleinert (born 1930s), East German slalom canoeist
Gert Kölli (born 1940), Austrian swimmer
Gert Korthof, Dutch biologist
Gert Krawinkel (1947–2014), German guitarist known as "Kralle"
Gert Krenn, Austrian bobsledder
Gert Kruys (born 1961), Dutch football player and manager
Gert Kullamäe (born 1971), Estonian basketball player
Gert Jan Lebbink (born 1961), Dutch sprint canoer
Robert Gerhard Gert Ledig (1921–1999), German writer
Gert Ligterink (born 1949), Dutch chess player
Gert Lotter (born 1993), Namibian cricketer and rugby player
Gert Lundqvist (1937–2001), Swedish footballer
Gert Metz (born 1942), German sprinter
Gert Miltzow (1629–1668), Norwegian clergyman, theologian and historical writer
Gert Mittring (born 1966), German mental calculator
Gert Muller (born 1985), South African rugby player
Gert Cornelius Nel (1885–1950), South African botanist
Gert Neuhaus (born 1939), German artist
Gert Nygårdshaug (born 1946), Norwegian author
Gert Olesk (born 1973), Estonian footballer
Gert Palmcrantz (born 1938), Swedish sound engineer
Gert Peens (born 1974), South African-born Italian rugby player
Gert Petersen (1927-2009), Danish journalist and politician who helped found the Socialist People's Party
Gert Pettersson (born 1950s), Swedish orienteering competitor
Gert Postel (born 1958), German impostor
Gert Potgieter (1929–1977), South African tenor
Gert Potgieter (born 1937), South African hurdle runner
Gert Prokop (1932–1994), German science fiction writer
Gert Rosenthal (born 1935), Guatemalan diplomat
Gerhardus Gert Rudolph (1797–1851), South African Voortrekker and political leader
Gert Sabidussi (born 1929), Austrian mathematician
Gert Schalkwyk (born 1982), South African footballer
Gert Jan Schlatmann (born 1963), Dutch field hockey player
Gert Schnider (born 1979), Austrian board-game player
Gert Schramm (1928–2016), German concentration camp survivor
Gerrit Gert Schutte (born 1939), Dutch politician
Gert Sellheim (1901–1970), German-Australian artist
Richard Gert Sibande (1907–1987), South African political activist
Gert Smal (born 1961), South African rugby player
Gert Smit (1944–1998), South African singer known as "Gene Rockwell"
Gert Spaargaren (born 1954), Dutch environmental sociologist
Gert Steegmans (born 1980), Belgian road bicycle racer
Gert Thys (born 1971), South African long-distance runner
Gert Jan Timmerman (born 1956), Dutch correspondence chess player
Gert Trasha (born 1988), Albanian weightlifter
Gert Trinklein (born 1949), German footballer
Gert van den Bergh (1920–1968), South African film actor
Gert van Kruiningen (born 1961), New Zealand aeronautical engineer
Gert van der Merwe, South African paralympic athlete
Gert Van Mol (born 1969), Belgian entrepreneur and CEO
Gert van Rooyen (1938–1990), South Africa serial killer
Gert Van Walle (born 1987), Belgian volleyball player
Gert Verheyen (born 1970), Belgian retired footballer
Gert Verhulst (born 1968), Belgian television presenter, actor and singer
Gert Vlok Nel (born 1963), South African poet
Gert Voss (1941–2014), German actor
Gert Weil (born 1960), Chilean retired shot putter
Gert Weisskirchen (born 1944), German politician
Gert Wieczorkowski (born 1948), footballer
Gert Wiescher (born 1944), German graphic artist, type designer and author
Gert Wilden (1917–2015), German film composer
Gert Willner (1940–2000), German politician
Gert Wingårdh (born 1951), Swedish architect
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (1894–1974), German painter
Gert Jan van Woudenberg (born 1951), Dutch rower
Gert Wünsche (born 1943), German footballer
Gert Ditberg (born 2001), Professionelt gøthul

Women

Gertrude Gert Boyle (born 1924), German-born American businesswoman
Gertrude Gert Clarke (born ca. 1933), American nuclear scientist

Fictional characters

One of the title characters of Gert and Daisy, a British film and radio comedy act
One of the title characters of the TV series Samson en Gert, a Flemish children's series
Gertrude Yorkes, a Marvel Comics superheroine and member of The Runaways

References

^ Behind the Name: Gert

Men

Women

Fictional characters

References

See also