girls:
211.2k births since 1880
#187 (97th percentile)
boys:
748 births since 1913
#3839 (16th percentile)
overall:
211.9k births since 1880
#369 (95th percentile)
The name Geraldine is the #369 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 211,922 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #187 (96.7% percentile) for all time with 211,174 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,839 (16.2% percentile) for all time with 748 births since 1913.
Geraldine has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1913 for boys).
The name Geraldine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Geraldine reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 93.7% percentile (ranked #38) with 4,904 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 4,904 births per million (ranked 93.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Geraldine ranks #821 for girls (13.3% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Geraldine reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #496) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geraldine".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Geraldine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.3% confident that Geraldine is pronounced as JEH-ruhl-DEEN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruhl-deen, at 37.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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