Geraldo
Geraldo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 892nd, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1988115 births
- Best rank
- #892in 1988
- Since 1948
- 2,390people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,390 boys have been named Geraldo in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 115 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 115 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 26%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Geraldo was the 892nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Geraldo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Korypeak 1989
- Derrekpeak 1989
- Derreckpeak 1990
- Coreypeak 1989
- Sherrodpeak 1991
- Demetrispeak 1990
- Miquelpeak 1986
- Arnaldopeak 1989
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.