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01 / Meaning & origin
Gebhard is a masculine given name documented in German.
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03 / By the numbers
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1984–2025 Spelling: Gebhard
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Source: Statistik Austria · Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | 214 | observed |
| 1985 | 3 | 278 | observed |
| 1986 | 7 | 203 | observed |
| 1987 | 8 | 203 | observed |
| 1988 | 4 | 272 | observed |
| 1989 | 1 | 489 | observed |
| 1990 | 3 | 295 | observed |
| 1991 | 5 | 265 | observed |
| 1992 | 1 | 544 | observed |
| 1993 | 2 | 412 | observed |
| 1994 | 4 | 310 | observed |
| 1995 | 5 | 283 | observed |
| 1996 | 1 | 630 | observed |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | 1 | 891 | observed |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | 1 | 1,049 | observed |
| 2005 | 1 | 1,065 | observed |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,767 | observed |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | 2 | 1,190 | observed |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Gebhard” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
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Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Gebhard— “strong giver”
_Giav_ or _give_ is not a very common commencement; but in the Vilkina Saga, King Gjuko is the father of Gunnar and Gudrun, and the whole family are called Giukungr. In German, in the _Book of Heroes_, he is Gibicho, and there was really a historical Burgundian King Gibica, mentioned as a law-giver; but in the _Nibelungen-nôt_, Gibich is only a vassal king of Etzel’s. The North had Gjaflaug, liquor giver, no doubt the Hebe of the Norse banquets, Gjavvald, in German, Gevald,…
_Giav_ or _give_ is not a very common commencement; but in the Vilkina Saga, King Gjuko is the father of Gunnar and Gudrun, and the whole family are called Giukungr. In German, in the _Book of Heroes_, he is Gibicho, and there was really a historical Burgundian King Gibica, mentioned as a law-giver; but in the _Nibelungen-nôt_, Gibich is only a vassal king of Etzel’s. The North had Gjaflaug, liquor giver, no doubt the Hebe of the Norse banquets, Gjavvald, in German, Gevald, and perhaps Gabilo and Gavele, the Gebelius of Latinists. Germany had likewise Gebahard, a firm or perhaps a strong giver, which still survives under the unpromising sound of Gebhard.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter IV (Heroic Names Of The Nibelung), Section XI (Uta, Ortwin) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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