Gearld
Gearld is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 487th, in 1941.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1941146 births
- Best rank
- #487in 1941
- Since 1914
- 4,281people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,281 boys have been named Gearld in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1941, with 146 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 146 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1940s alone account for 26%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1941, its biggest year
Gearld was the 487th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1941 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1941.
Names that rose and fell with Gearld
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jerrepeak 1942
- Jerepeak 1941
- Geroldpeak 1939
- Mackiepeak 1942
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Jeroldpeak 1942
- Rondalpeak 1947
- Donpeak 1946
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.