Geraldo

Where Geraldo comes from

Geraldo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1933
    Geraldo Majella Agnelo born
    Brazilian Cardinal
  2. 1943
    Geraldo Rivera born
    American attorney, journalist and talk show host
  3. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,668 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1988
    Peak, #890
    115 babies named Geraldo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,914.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Geraldo Rivera · American attorney, journalist and talk show host, born 1943
  • Geraldo Majella Agnelo · Brazilian Cardinal, 1933–2023
  • Geraldo Alves · Portuguese association footballer, born 1980
  • Geraldo João Martins · Politician from Guinea-Bissau
  • Geraldo Vandré · Brazilian musician, born 1935

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.