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Geraldine
Rank in 2024
#2,018
Born in 2024
97
Peak year
1930 · #44
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 97 girls were named Geraldine, about 1 in every 16,631.
- It peaked in 1930 with 5,448 babies, ranked #44.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 211,273 girls have been named Geraldine since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Geraldine per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.9Greatest1901–27
- 4.4Silent1928–45
- 1.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 58,988 babies, 2.88 per 1,000. Silent: 90,676 babies, 4.39 per 1,000. Boomers: 48,082 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,057 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,391 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,404 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,580 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Gerald + -ine. c. 1540 by the Earl of Surrey as a poetic name for Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, "one of the Fitzgeralds". Taken up as a given name in the 19th century, and used as a feminine form of Gerald.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Geraldine, CC BY-SA 4.0.