Gerardo

Where Gerardo comes from

Gerardo 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. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,253 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Gerardo Martino born
    Argentine footballer and manager
  3. 1979
    Gerardo Torrado born
    Mexican footballer
  4. 1996
    Peak, #205
    1,510 babies named Gerardo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #418.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Gerardo Martino · Argentine footballer and manager, born 1962
  • Gerardo Torrado · Mexican footballer, born 1979
  • Gerardo Machado · President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933, 1871–1939

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.