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Geary

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Geary has been given to 2,457 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1953, with 201 recorded.

Babies named Geary, 2011

1 in 732,000

Geary over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geary: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geary means

Geary is a given name.

The naming story behind Geary

Wikidata records Geary as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q25114189, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,457 boys were recorded with the name Geary between 1916 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 201 in 1953; its best national rank was #493 in 1953.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Geary?

Geary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geary sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gearys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geary was born before 1953 — so the typical Geary is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,849
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (1,152).

Is Geary 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 1953 (201)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#493
1953

Spellings of Geary

Geary is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 26.6% against Geary's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Geary is used

Across 1910–2025, Geary was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 141,626 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oregon1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Geary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Geary by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#493
1953
Peak year
1953
201 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
2,457
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geary

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Geary

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Geary, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Geary

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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