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Geralyn

Girls' name

Variant of Geraldine

Geralyn has been given to 4,875 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1956, with 346 recorded.

Babies named Geralyn, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geralyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Geraldine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geralyn means

Geralyn is a variant of Geraldine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Geralyn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.ə.lɪn/ for Geralyn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Geralyn → Geraldine → 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 Geraldine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,875 girls were recorded with the name Geralyn between 1929 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 346 in 1956; its best national rank was #504 in 1956.

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 Geralyn?

Geralyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geralyn 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geralyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geralyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geralyn was born before 1959 — so the typical Geralyn is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,628
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Choose a decade

1950s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (2,385).

Is Geralyn 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 1956 (346)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#504
1956

Spellings of Geralyn

Geralyn is not the most common spelling — Evalyn is, with 20.0% against Geralyn's 10.2%.

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 Geralyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Geralyn was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 34,360 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 12,500
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 20,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 20,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 25,000
  8. 8New York1 in 25,000

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

Geralyn 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
—
Best rank ever
#504
1956
Peak year
1956
346 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,875
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geralyn

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

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Names with a curve like Geralyn

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

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Sibling names for Geralyn

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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