Gearldine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gearldine has been given to 4,691 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1935, with 165 recorded.
Babies named Gearldine, 1977
1 in 635,000
Gearldine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gearldine?
Gearldine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1977
- 1 in 635,000
- 5 of 3,176,294 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 307,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1977
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 440,329 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gearldine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 440,329 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gearldine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gearldines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gearldine was born before 1939 — so the typical Gearldine is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 28.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 941
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (1,351).
Is Gearldine 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 1935 (165)
- Years since peak
- 90
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gearldine
Gearldine is not the most common spelling — Geraldine is, with 88.5% against Gearldine's 2.0%.
Where Gearldine is used
Across 1910–2025, Gearldine was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 35,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 7,143
- 2Kentucky1 in 9,091
- 3Mississippi1 in 11,111
- 4Oklahoma1 in 11,111
- 5West Virginia1 in 11,111
- 6Alabama1 in 12,500
- 7North Carolina1 in 14,286
- 8South Carolina1 in 14,286
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. Gearldine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gearldine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Gearldine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Gearldine
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gearldine, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Gearldine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.