girls:
455 births since 1942
#5261 (8th percentile)
overall:
455 births since 1942
#7284 (6th percentile)
The name Geralynn is the #7,284 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 455 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,261 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 455 births since 1942.
Geralynn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (first recorded for girls in 1942). Birth data for Geralynn is available in 36 out of the 72 years between 1942 and 2013. 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 girls, Geralynn reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #740) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geralynn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Geralynn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.7% confident that Geralynn is pronounced as JEH-ruh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruh-LIHN, at 27.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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