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Geralt

#7,842 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Gerald

Geralt has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #7,842 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Geralt, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geralt: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gerald

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geralt means

Geralt is a variant of Gerald.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Geralt → 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, 114 boys were recorded with the name Geralt between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,799 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,462 in 2020 to #7,842 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 Geralt?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,842
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geralt 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geralt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geralts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geralt was born before 2022 — so the typical Geralt is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
95.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
114
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 95.6% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Geralt 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
−2,331
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,380
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
34.5%
Peak was 2022 (29)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,799
2022

Spellings of Geralt

Geralt is not the most common spelling — Gerald is, with 65.8% against Geralt's 0.02%.

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 Geralt is used

Across 1910–2025, Geralt was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Geralt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Geralt around the world

Where Geralt 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.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Geralt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,842
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,380
Best rank ever
#3,799
2022
Peak year
2022
29 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
114
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Geralt

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

GerberGershomGerellGerladGeradoGervisGeramyGerikGeroneGerrettGerronGerredGerradGerraldGeranGeremyGeromeGerrardGervontaGervaseGerhartGermanyGeralGerritt

Sibling names for Geralt

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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