Geraldo
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 115 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,395since 1948
Geraldo over time
Rank among boys' names. Geraldo has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2007 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #3,815 | 24 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #2,507 | 34 |
| 1997 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #1,477 | 64 |
| 1993 | #1,358 | 71 |
| 1992 | #1,309 | 74 |
| 1991 | #1,396 | 66 |
| 1990 | #1,129 | 91 |
| 1989 | #1,024 | 101 |
| 1988 | #890 | 115 |
| 1987 | #1,106 | 75 |
| 1986 | #1,535 | 43 |
| 1985 | #1,371 | 50 |
| 1984 | #1,265 | 53 |
| 1983 | #1,347 | 48 |
| 1982 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,433 | 44 |
| 1980 | #1,324 | 50 |
| 1979 | #1,352 | 47 |
| 1978 | #1,286 | 49 |
| 1977 | #1,289 | 48 |
| 1976 | #1,179 | 53 |
| 1975 | #1,407 | 39 |
| 1974 | #1,229 | 46 |
| 1973 | #1,464 | 34 |
| 1972 | #1,473 | 33 |
| 1971 | #1,668 | 28 |
| 1970 | #1,396 | 36 |
| 1969 | #1,326 | 36 |
| 1968 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1967 | #1,340 | 32 |
| 1966 | #1,723 | 20 |
| 1965 | #1,360 | 32 |
| 1964 | #1,793 | 20 |
| 1963 | #1,695 | 22 |
| 1962 | #1,669 | 23 |
| 1961 | #2,322 | 13 |
| 1960 | #2,315 | 13 |
| 1959 | #2,033 | 16 |
| 1958 | #2,026 | 16 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #2,361 | 12 |
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| 1954 | #1,956 | 16 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Geraldo! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1950, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Geraldo is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#512 · 1 in 7,725
- New Jersey#585 · 1 in 6,319
- New York#879 · 1 in 11,439
- Florida#1,093 · 1 in 17,090
- Texas#1,232 · 1 in 21,880
Best ever in a state: #282 in Connecticut, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #512 | 5 | 1 in 7,725 |
| New Jersey | #585 | 8 | 1 in 6,319 |
| New York | #879 | 11 | 1 in 11,439 |
| Florida | #1,093 | 5 | 1 in 17,090 |
| Texas | #1,232 | 7 | 1 in 21,880 |
| California | #1,349 | 10 | 1 in 26,685 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Geraldo
- 341 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #12,008)
- 3,941 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #12,008)
- 5,332 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 216 spots in 1988 (#1,106 → #890)
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 1989 (#890 → #1,024)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1988 at #890 (115 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1988
- Highest: 1 in 16,646 boys born in 1988 were named Geraldo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.1% of all boys named Geraldo (624) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 81 | #1,956 (1954) | #2,902 |
| 1960s | 242 | #1,326 (1969) | #1,694 |
| 1970s | 413 | #1,179 (1976) | #1,374 |
| 1980s | 624 | #890 (1988) | #1,271 |
| 1990s | 567 | #1,129 (1990) | #1,763 |
| 2000s | 287 | #2,425 (2000) | #3,505 |
| 2010s | 129 | #3,450 (2012) | #7,245 |
| 2020s | 47 | #7,089 (2021) | #9,512 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Geraldo in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 30,188 of them was named Geraldo, which outranked 85.6% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,471Rashid65
- #1,471Rowdy65
- #1,471Telvin65
- #1,477Geraldo64
- #1,477Andrea64
- #1,477Arman64
- #1,477Elton64
- #1,495Ameer63
- #1,495Amit63
- #1,495Arik63
Tied with 17 names at #1,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.