girls:
5 births since 1960
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1914
#1858 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1914
#4186 (46th percentile)
The name Gearld is the #4,186 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,286 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 45.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,858 (59.5% percentile) for all time with 4,281 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1960.
Gearld first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1960 for girls). Birth data for Gearld is available in 74 out of the 75 years between 1914 and 1988 (74 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gearld has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gearld reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 25.5% percentile (ranked #392) with 116 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 116 births per million (ranked 25.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
For girls, Gearld reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #771) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1960.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gearld".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gearld. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.6% confident that Gearld is pronounced as JEH-ruhld, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is gearld, at 22.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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