Geralyn
Geralyn was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 4,875 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,030 Americans named Geralyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 61 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geralyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Geralyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,051, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
346 babies in 1956, the peak
Geralyn peaked in 1956, when 346 girls were given it, #504 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,051 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,723 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,501 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,002 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,248 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,468 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,285 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,966 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,905 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,467 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,414 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,855 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,383 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,190 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,462 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,499 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,200 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,017 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,558 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,288 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,192 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,254 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,758 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,781 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,349 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,922 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,908 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,351 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,553 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,535 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,311 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,275 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,245 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,946 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,420 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,331 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,825 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,037 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,052 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,992 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,264 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,213 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,654 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,391 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,110 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,053 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 115 | #953 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 160 | #830 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 210 | #705 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 241 | #651 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 285 | #597 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 250 | #639 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 320 | #544 | 0.16 |
| 1958 | 295 | #572 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 318 | #536 | 0.16 |
| 1956 | 346 | #504 | 0.17 |
| 1955 | 292 | #537 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 217 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 218 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1952 | 190 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 103 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 86 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,904 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,546 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,286 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,631 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,474 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,859 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Geralyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geralyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Geralyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geralyn, and how old are they?
4,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 4,875 Americans ever recorded as Geralyn. The median Geralyn alive today is 67 years old; half are between 61 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 4,494 people named Geralyn (4,493 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 59 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,940 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 617 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 125 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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 Geralyn born?
The states with the most babies named Geralyn are New York, Illinois and Michigan, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 525 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 418 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 311 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 273 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 258 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 254 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 243 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Missouri | 178 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 176 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 144 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Geralyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geralyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1929 it was given 2.4 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 Geralyn 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 6,200 babies since 1880, Geralyn is the most given (79% 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 Geralyn
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 Geralyn and names like it
- Compare Geralyn and GerilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGeralyn peaked in 1956.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geralyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Geralyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Geralyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.