Gehrig — Family Name, Records and Arms

There is no single Gehrig family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Gehrig line, if any, bore arms.

In the records

Wikidata records Gehrig as a German family name. Gehrig shows up clearly in official surname statistics.

Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. We don't publish a meaning for Gehrig without a reliable source. Our researchers work it out from the records of each family. The 2010 US Census counted 1,138 people named Gehrig, ranking it number 22,573 among American surnames. 130 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Gehrig name at birth.

Get the complete Gehrig report, with a museum-style coat of arms.