Gearline — girls' name
260 babies named Gearline in U.S. Social Security records since 1924, with the highest year being 1939. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Gearline was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Gearline in 1939 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Gearline
The Social Security Administration has registered 260 babies named Gearline between 1924 and 1957, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gearline currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1957. The name reached its historical peak in 1939, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Gearline performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Gearline shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Gearline in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 260 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Gearline at a glance
Last recorded 1957Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Gearline popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1957–1924
- Peak year (1939)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1957.
260 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1939 with 16 births in a single year.
Gearline by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 91 births that decade — 35% of Gearline's all-time total
Gearline decade highlights
- Peak decade 91 births
- Runner-up 76 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Gearline's strongest decade
91 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1924–1957 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.