Geri
Geri was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 8,026 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,600 Americans named Geri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 53 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Geri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Geri is “a diminutive of the female given name Geraldine, also used as a formal given name.”
Shortening; compare Jerry from Gerald.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Geri?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,932, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
368 babies in 1958, the peak
Geri peaked in 1958, when 368 girls were given it, #500 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | #12,932 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,137 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,143 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,644 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,348 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,681 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,492 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,366 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,992 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,984 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 17 | #6,488 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,650 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,919 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,621 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,437 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,091 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,368 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,576 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,428 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,603 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,896 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,463 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,938 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,367 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,175 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,637 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,754 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,678 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,311 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 109 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 99 | #1,291 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 83 | #1,456 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,390 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 82 | #1,371 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,150 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 88 | #1,243 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 112 | #1,042 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 127 | #958 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 136 | #944 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 183 | #776 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 156 | #824 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 192 | #704 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 231 | #628 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 200 | #692 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 208 | #681 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 264 | #619 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 310 | #550 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 268 | #612 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 319 | #554 | 0.16 |
| 1960 | 318 | #543 | 0.16 |
| 1959 | 328 | #536 | 0.16 |
| 1958 | 368 | #500 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 325 | #531 | 0.16 |
| 1956 | 265 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 247 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1954 | 207 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 169 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 151 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 129 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 91 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 103 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 101 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 129 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 91 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 76 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 80 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 81 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 83 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 56 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,914 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,049 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,230 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,249 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,184 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,596 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,111 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Geri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geri has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 89 years of records.
Girls and boys named Geri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geri, and how old are they?
6,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 8,026 Americans ever recorded as Geri. The median Geri alive today is 63 years old; half are between 53 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 8,113 people named Geri (7,967 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,014 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 270 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,360 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,990 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 768 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 185 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18 |
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 Geri born?
The states with the most babies named Geri are California, Illinois and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 901 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 611 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 552 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 375 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 313 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 245 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 215 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 203 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Washington | 203 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Wisconsin | 196 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Geri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geri is most over-represented in Washington: since 1918 it was given 1.6 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 Geri 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 15,083 babies since 1880, Geri is the most given (53% 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 Geri
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 Geri and names like it
- Compare Geri and GerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGeri peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geri since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Geri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Geri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.