Geraldine
Geraldine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 97 births. Its best rank was 38th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 970.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19305,448 births
- Best rank
- #38in 1931
- Since 1880
- 211,273people given the name
The story in the numbers
211,273 girls have been named Geraldine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 5,448 births — 0.48% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 97 births in 2024, against 5,448 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 24%. It has spent 102 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Geraldine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 192 | |
| 1890s | 758 | |
| 1900s | 2,589 | |
| 1910s | 18,990 | |
| 1920s | 48,044 | |
| 1930s | 50,040 | |
| 1940s | 47,933 | |
| 1950s | 24,222 | |
| 1960s | 9,789 | |
| 1970s | 2,232 | |
| 1980s | 1,561 | |
| 1990s | 1,198 | |
| 2000s | 1,417 | |
| 2010s | 1,719 | |
| 2020s | 589 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Geraldine was the 43rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Geraldine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eloispeak 1935
- Ardithpeak 1930
- Earlinepeak 1927
- Willenepeak 1929
- Arletapeak 1932
- Mardellpeak 1932
- Earleanpeak 1932
- Erlenepeak 1930
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.