Gearldine
Gearldine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 491st, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1935165 births
- Best rank
- #491in 1935
- Since 1908
- 4,686people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,686 girls have been named Gearldine in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 165 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 165 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1930s alone account for 29%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1935, its biggest year
Gearldine was the 491st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1935 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Gearldine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jerlinepeak 1940
- Bettyepeak 1933
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Beverleypeak 1938
- Merlenepeak 1940
- Delorispeak 1947
- Darlynepeak 1935
- Merilynpeak 1946
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.