Geary
Geary is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 494th, in 1953.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1953201 births
- Best rank
- #494in 1953
- Since 1916
- 2,457people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,457 boys have been named Geary in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1953, with 201 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 201 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 47%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Geary | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 29 | |
| 1930s | 117 | |
| 1940s | 451 | |
| 1950s | 1,152 | |
| 1960s | 268 | |
| 1970s | 206 | |
| 1980s | 142 | |
| 1990s | 56 | |
| 2000s | 20 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1953, its biggest year
Geary was the 494th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1953 were Robert, James, Michael, John and David. See all of 1953.
Names that rose and fell with Geary
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garypeak 1952
- Garrypeak 1954
- Dennispeak 1952
- Randpeak 1952
- Brucepeak 1956
- Michialpeak 1954
- Butchpeak 1956
- Donniepeak 1952
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.