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Geraldo

#12,659 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Gerald

Geraldo has been given to 2,395 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #12,659 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Geraldo, 2025

1 in 663,000

Geraldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geraldo: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Gerald

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geraldo means

Geraldo is a English equivalent of Gerald.

Origin, language, and formation

Geraldo is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerald.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Geraldo is pronounced /ʒeˈɾaw.du/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,395 boys were recorded with the name Geraldo between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 1988; its best national rank was #891 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,284 in 2020 to #12,659 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,804 in 2015 to #12,659 in 2025.

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 Geraldo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,659
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geraldo 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geraldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geraldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geraldo was born before 1988 — so the typical Geraldo is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,390
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (624).

Is Geraldo 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
+275
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,375
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,855
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 1988 (115)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#891
1988

Spellings of Geraldo

Geraldo is not the most common spelling — Gerald is, with 74.5% against Geraldo's 0.40%.

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 Geraldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Geraldo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 61,335 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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. Geraldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Geraldo around the world

Where Geraldo 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
    1954–2006
    #5,015
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1960–1987
    #464
    in 1987

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.

Notable people named Geraldo

People whose public names include Geraldo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Geraldo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Geraldo. Linked forms have their own page here.

AldoEraldoGeraldGerardoGardinoGeraldino

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Geraldo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,659
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,375
Best rank ever
#891
1988
Peak year
1988
115 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,395
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Geraldo

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

GermaineGermainGershonGerritGeronimoGerhardGerrardGersonGeromeGeremyArnaldoRenaldoOsbaldoArnoldoUbaldoOswaldoGeremiahRonaldoGermanGeroldGershomReinaldoGerrickLeopoldo

Names with a curve like Geraldo

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

DemetrisMiquelDerrekArnaldoRonnellToreyJoryDerrikRondellChristenRamoneMarkeith

Sibling names for Geraldo

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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