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Gerald
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛɹəld/
Rank in 2024
#1,167
Born in 2024
178
Peak year
1942 · #22
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 178 boys were named Gerald, about 1 in every 9,637.
- It peaked in 1942 with 11,483 babies, ranked #22.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 448,793 boys have been named Gerald since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Gerald per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.1Greatest1901–27
- 7.6Silent1928–45
- 4.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 51,447 babies, 3.08 per 1,000. Silent: 157,178 babies, 7.61 per 1,000. Boomers: 154,511 babies, 4.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 51,817 babies, 1.90 per 1,000. Millennials: 21,357 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,343 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,007 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old French, ultimately from Frankish *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *wald (“might, power”). The name was brought to England by the Normans. It survived in Ireland, and was revived in the 19th century.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɛɹəld/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Gerald, CC BY-SA 4.0.