girls:
4.3k births since 1909
#2600 (55th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1909
#4159 (46th percentile)
The name Jeraldine is the #4,159 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,340 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 46.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,600 (54.5% percentile) for all time with 4,340 births since 1909.
Jeraldine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (first recorded for girls in 1909). Birth data for Jeraldine is available in 99 out of the 114 years between 1909 and 2022. 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, Jeraldine reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 28.2% percentile (ranked #446) with 135 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 139 births per million (ranked 25.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeraldine".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jeraldine", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Geraldine" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Geraldine..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Jeraldine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.6% confident that Jeraldine is pronounced as JEH-ruhl-deen, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruhl-DEEN, at 34.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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