Gearldine
Gearldine was last recorded in 1977, when 5 babies were given it; 4,691 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Gearldine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 72 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gearldine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gearldine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,118, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
165 babies in 1935, the peak
Gearldine peaked in 1935, when 165 girls were given it, #491 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #10,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,681 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,166 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,160 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,669 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,123 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,786 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,618 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,145 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 37 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,968 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 70 | #1,243 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 84 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 79 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 76 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 97 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 103 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 118 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 121 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 127 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 130 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 124 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 144 | #632 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 157 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 129 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 156 | #552 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 146 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 144 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1937 | 131 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 138 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 165 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1934 | 134 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 146 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 115 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 110 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 122 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 111 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 100 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 126 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 104 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 84 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 94 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 66 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 66 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 65 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 68 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,583 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,038 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,047 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,243 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,238 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gearldine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gearldine has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gearldine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gearldine, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 39% of the 4,691 Americans ever recorded as Gearldine. The median Gearldine alive today is 79 years old; half are between 72 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 765 people named Gearldine (760 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 68% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 738 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 964 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gearldine born?
The states with the most babies named Gearldine are Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 317 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 317 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 243 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 239 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 239 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Georgia | 239 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 209 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 195 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Mississippi | 192 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| South Carolina | 163 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Gearldine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gearldine is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gearldine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 217,494 babies since 1880, Gearldine is the second most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 73 babies recorded by SSA was a Gearldine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gearldine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gearldine and names like it
- Compare Gearldine and GeraldineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sGearldine peaked in 1935.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gearldine since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Gearldine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gearldine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.