Name Awesome

Geri

Girls' name

Possibly spear + might, power, through Geraldine

Geri has been given to 8,026 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1958, with 368 recorded.

Babies named Geri, 2018

1 in 502,000

Geri over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geri: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly spear + might, power, through Geraldine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geri means

Geri belongs to the name family reached through Geri → Geraldine → Gerald. Its meaning is “spear + might, power”.

Origin, language, and formation

Geri is used in English and Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Geraldine, Gergely, Gergő and Gerald.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Geri is pronounced [ˈɡɛri].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,021 girls were recorded with the name Geri between 1918 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 368 in 1958; its best national rank was #500 in 1958.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Geri between 1947 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1947; its best national rank was #3,937 in 1947.

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 Geri?

Geri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geri 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geri was born before 1961 — so the typical Geri is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,924
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (2,466).

Is Geri 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (368)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#500
1958

Spellings of Geri

Geri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 20.2% against Geri's 0.47%.

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 Geri is used

Across 1910–2025, Geri was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 29,305 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 12,500
  2. 2Washington1 in 12,500
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Michigan1 in 16,667
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  7. 7Iowa1 in 20,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 20,000

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

Geri around the world

Where Geri 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
    1997–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1997–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–1998
    #351
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    2001–2001
    #606
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Geri

People whose public names include Geri, 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.

Geri in other languages

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

GariGery

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

Geri 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
#500
1958
Peak year
1958
368 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
8,021
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,937
1947
Peak year
1947
5 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
1947
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geri

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

AveriGerryJeriGerriMeriPeriKeriGertieTeriGermaineEmeriCheriKateriGeraldGerdaGeralynSheriValeriGerthaGerrieEriNeriSeriGermany

Names with a curve like Geri

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

LaureenPamalaCarenMaribethValorieMaryjoColeenVikkiTeenaTereseRoxannCindi

Sibling names for Geri

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Geri

Top names of 1958, Geri's peak yearThe 1950s in fullOther names that peaked in 1958Girls' names starting with GUncommon Hungarian Boy Names