Gearldean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gearldean has been given to 469 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Gearldean, 1957
1 in 700,000
Gearldean over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gearldean?
Gearldean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 700,000
- 6 of 4,201,368 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 341,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 485,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gearldean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 485,362 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gearldean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gearldeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gearldean was born before 1937 — so the typical Gearldean is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 32.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 42
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (154).
Is Gearldean rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1928 (21)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.9% average annual change
Spellings of Gearldean
Gearldean is not the most common spelling — Earlean is, with 51.3% against Gearldean's 9.3%.
Where Gearldean is used
Across 1910–2025, Gearldean was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 489,580 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gearldean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gearldean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gearldean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gearldean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.