boys:
2.4k births since 1948
#2591 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1948
#5435 (30th percentile)
The name Geraldo is the #5,435 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,385 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 29.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,591 (43.5% percentile) for all time with 2,385 births since 1948.
Geraldo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for boys in 1948). Birth data for Geraldo is available in 73 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Geraldo reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #616) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 57 births per million (ranked 15.2% percentile). Despite a low point around 2010, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Geraldo ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geraldo".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Geraldo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Geraldo is pronounced as jer-AHL-doh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-RAHL-doh, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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