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Jeraldine

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jeraldine has been given to 4,345 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1942, with 188 recorded.

Babies named Jeraldine, 2024

1 in 669,000

Jeraldine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeraldine: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeraldine means

Jeraldine is a given name.

The naming story behind Jeraldine

Wikidata records Jeraldine as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q108548452, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,345 girls were recorded with the name Jeraldine between 1909 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 188 in 1942; its best national rank was #529 in 1939.

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.

How common is Jeraldine?

Jeraldine 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeraldine 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeraldine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeraldines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeraldine was born before 1942 — so the typical Jeraldine is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,216
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1940s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (1,226).

Is Jeraldine 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1942 (188)
Years since peak
83
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#529
1939

Spellings of Jeraldine

Jeraldine is not the most common spelling — Geraldine is, with 96.8% against Jeraldine's 2.0%.

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 Jeraldine is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeraldine was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 96,883 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 20,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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

Jeraldine around the world

Where Jeraldine 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.

  • South Australia
    1949–1960
    #617
    in 1960

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jeraldine 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
#529
1939
Peak year
1942
188 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,345
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeraldine

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

JermaineJerlineJeralineAugustineJerelineMadelaineJerricaJerolineJackelineMarcelineJerilynJerrineValentineJeroldineCelestineRosalineKarolineJoselineMadalineSunshineJerseyEmmelineJericaCharline

Names with a curve like Jeraldine

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

GearldineGeorgeneCarrolMerilynEarleanCarrollPhylisGerryNoreneMerleneMaryleeArdith

Sibling names for Jeraldine

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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