boys:
3k births since 1912
#2307 (50th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1912
#4982 (36th percentile)
The name Gerold is the #4,982 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,964 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 35.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,307 (49.7% percentile) for all time with 2,964 births since 1912.
Gerold first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for boys in 1912). Birth data for Gerold is available in 88 out of the 91 years between 1912 and 2002. 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, Gerold reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #437) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 79 births per million (ranked 16.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerold".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Gerold. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Gerold is pronounced as GEH-ruhld, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruhld, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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