Geryl — unisex name

What the Data Says About Geryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 95 babies named Geryl between 1950 and 1966, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Geryl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1966. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Geryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Geryl performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 72 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Geryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Geryl in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Geryl 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 95 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.