girls:
239 births since 1969
#5477 (4th percentile)
boys:
54.1k births since 1906
#469 (90th percentile)
overall:
54.4k births since 1906
#1023 (87th percentile)
The name Gerardo is the #1,023 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54,366 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 86.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #469 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 54,127 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,477 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 239 births since 1969.
Gerardo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Gerardo is available in 115 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 27 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 Gerardo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gerardo reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 75.0% percentile (ranked #204) with 815 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 815 births per million (ranked 75.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gerardo ranks #502 for boys (44.9% percentile) with 265 births per million, which is 32.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gerardo reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #839) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerardo".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Gerardo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.5% confident that Gerardo is pronounced as jer-AHR-doh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ger-AHR-doh, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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