Gert

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Gert
PronunciationEnglish: /ˈɡɜːrt/ GURT
German: [ˈɡɛʁt]
Swedish: [ˈjæʈː]
Dutch: [ˈɣɛrt]
Afrikaans: [ˈχɛrt]
GenderMasculine
Origin
Word/nameDutch , German, North Germanic, Belgium
MeaningGerard
Other names
Related namesGeert, Gerard, Gerd, Gerhard

Gert is a mainly masculine given name (sometimes a short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.), with some female bearers (short for Gertrude).[1]

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 men over 50 years of age. Around 400 women in Sweden have Gert as their first name according to the Swedish Bureau of Census.

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Board games

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Business

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  • Gertrude Gert Boyle (1924–2019), German-born American businesswoman
  • Gert Joubert (born 1948), Namibian businessperson
  • Gert Van Mol (born 1969), Belgian entrepreneur and CEO

Other fields

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  • Gert Postel (born 1958), German impostor
  • Gert Schramm (1928–2016), German concentration camp survivor
  • Cornelius Gerhardus Gert van Rooyen (1938–1990), South African pedophile and serial killer

Fictional characters

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  • 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

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