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Geralda

Girls' name

Feminine form of Gerald

Geralda has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1927, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Geralda, 1983

1 in 577,000

Geralda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geralda: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Gerald

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geralda means

Geralda is a feminine form of Gerald.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Geralda is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʒe.ˈɾaw.dɐ/ and /ʒɨ.ˈɾaɫ.dɐ/ for Geralda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Geralda → Gerald. The family’s proposed meaning is “spear + might, power”, recorded in English with the source elements gaiʀ and wald.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerald.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 66 girls were recorded with the name Geralda between 1925 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,927 in 1927.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Geralda?

Geralda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 577,000
6 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only
1 in 278,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
400,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geralda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1983 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 400,064 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geralda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geraldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geralda was born before 1938 — so the typical Geralda is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
24
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1920s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Geralda 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 1927 (11)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,927
1927

Spellings of Geralda

Geralda is not the most common spelling — Geralyn is, with 39.8% against Geralda's 0.54%.

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.

Geralda around the world

Where Geralda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1911–1982
    #3,397
    in 1982
  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #707
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Geralda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,927
1927
Peak year
1927
11 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
66
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geralda

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

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Sibling names for Geralda

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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