Geary
Geary was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 2,457 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Geary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 56 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Geary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,923, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
201 babies in 1953, the peak
Geary peaked in 1953, when 201 boys were given it, #493 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #12,923 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,614 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,674 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,592 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,399 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,575 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,477 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 12 | #4,357 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,543 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,992 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,008 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,284 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,469 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,618 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,961 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,845 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,155 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,945 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,886 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,837 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,826 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,622 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,697 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,606 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 29 | #1,472 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 30 | #1,438 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,220 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,305 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 29 | #1,496 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,310 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,094 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 58 | #997 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 78 | #849 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 113 | #691 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 149 | #606 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 201 | #493 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 189 | #507 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 169 | #525 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 110 | #663 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 69 | #820 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 54 | #946 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 65 | #862 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,063 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 53 | #861 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,045 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,113 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,306 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,310 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,113 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,411 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,603 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,167 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,825 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,942 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,214 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,244 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Geary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Geary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geary, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 2,457 Americans ever recorded as Geary. The median Geary alive today is 71 years old; half are between 56 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,688 people named Geary (27 women and girls, 1,661 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 986 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 289 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 164 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 29 |
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 Geary born?
The states with the most babies named Geary are California, Texas and Oklahoma, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 246 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 170 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 129 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Geary is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geary is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1916 it was given 3.7 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 boys’ 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 Geary 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 24,398 babies since 1880, Geary is the second most given (10% of them).
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 Geary
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 Geary and names like it
- Compare Geary and GerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGeary peaked in 1953.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geary since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Geary.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Geary alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.