Gerrit
Gerrit as a male name is of Frisian - Lower Franconian origin and is mostly used in the Netherlands as well as in the North Frisian and East Frisian North Sea region . He is short for Gerhard . Another spelling is Gerit or Geritt . Ancillary forms are Gerret, Gerrie, Gerriet, Gerridt, Gerrid and Garrit.
The women's first name Gerrit or Gerit is the short form of Geralde . The first name Gerrit for girls was in the past partially prohibited by German courts.
Female namesake
- Gerrit Große (* 1954), German politician
- Gerit Kling (* 1965), German actress
- Gerit Kopietz (* 1963), German author
Male namesake
- Gerrit Achterberg (1905–1962), Dutch poet
- Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638–1698), Dutch painter
- Gerrit Bouwmeester (1892–1961), Dutch football player
- Gerrit Bol (1906–1989), Dutch mathematician
- Gerrit Braun (* 1967), co-founder of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg
- Gerrit Brösel (* 1972), German economist and university professor
- Gerrit Derkowski (* 1969), German journalist
- Gerrit Dou (1613–1675), Dutch painter, student of Rembrandt, see Gerard Dou
- Gerrit Engelke (1890–1918), German poet
- Gerrit Glomser (* 1975), Austrian cyclist
- Gerrit Grass (actually Gerrit Grassl , * 1969), German actor
- Gerrit Grijns (1865-1944), Dutch researcher
- Gerrit Heesemann ( Lotto King Karl; * 1967), German musician and presenter
- Gerrit Holtmann (* 1995), German soccer player
- Gerrit Klein (actor) (* 1991), German actor and songwriter
- Gerrit Komrij (1944–2012), Dutch writer and poet
- Gerrit Meinke (* 1967), German soccer player
- Gerrit Müller (* 1984), German soccer player
- Gerrit Claesz Pool (1651–1710), Dutch shipbuilder
- Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964), Dutch architect and designer
- Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1794–1863), first Dutch chancellor
- Gerrit Schmidt-Foss (* 1975), German actor and voice actor
- Gerrit Schulte (1916–1992), Dutch racing cyclist
- Gerrit de Vries (politician) (1818–1900), Dutch politician
- Gerrit de Vries (cyclist) (* 1967), Dutch cyclist
- Gerrit Jacob de Vries (1905–1990), Dutch classical philologist and historian of philosophy
- Gerit Winnen (* 1974), German handball player
- Gerrit Zalm (* 1952), Dutch finance and prime minister
- Gerrit Zitterbart (* 1952), German pianist and university professor
- Jilles Gerrit Bijl (* 1958), Dutch politician (D66) and diplomat, see Jules Bijl
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Lutz Mackensen : The big book of first names: origin, derivatives and Distribution, pet forms, famous name bearers, memorial u. Name days, faded first names. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main and Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-34425-9 , p. 68.
- ↑ Der Spiegel No. 41/1976: Summer with Nicole , October 4, 1976, p. 100.