Gerardine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gerardine has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 1950, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Gerardine, 1989
1 in 640,000
Gerardine over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gerardine?
Gerardine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 640,000
- 6 of 3,842,268 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 307,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 443,877 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gerardine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 443,877 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerardine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gerardines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerardine was born before 1952 — so the typical Gerardine is around 73 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 52.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 107
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (81).
Is Gerardine 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 1950 (14)
- Years since peak
- 75
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.8% average annual change
Spellings of Gerardine
Gerardine is not the most common spelling — Geraldine is, with 93.9% against Gerardine'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 Gerardine is used
Across 1910–2025, Gerardine was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
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. Gerardine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gerardine around the world
Where Gerardine 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.
- Ireland1964–1989#503in 1989
- France1901–1982#3,165in 1982
- South Australia1951–1965#674in 1965
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Gerardine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gerardine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gerardine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.