Geri — girls' name

What the Data Says About Geri

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,021 babies named Geri between 1918 and 2018, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Geri currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 368 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Geri performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 2,466 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Geri shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 901 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Geri in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Geri 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 8,021 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.