Meaning not yet researched.
Geraldo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #892 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #892 in 1988; #12,663 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Geraldo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,663 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #892.
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Geraldo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #892 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 115 (1988).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Geraldo, making it the 12,663rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 276 places from #12,939 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Geraldo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #892, reached in 1988. That year also had the most boys given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #6,809 in 2015 and #3,880 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Geraldo in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 2,395 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 624 babies named Geraldo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 85 US boys were named Geraldo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerald (451,351 babies since 1880), Gerardo (55,254 babies since 1880) and Aldo (17,743 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Geraldo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,663 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #12,939 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,900 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,156 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,266 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,289 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,097 |
| 2018 | — | — | 7 | #10,020 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,255 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,470 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,809 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #9,999 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,072 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,717 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,480 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,638 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,368 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,153 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,154 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,858 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,397 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,658 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,839 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,888 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,449 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,485 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,518 |
| 1997 | — | — | 39 | #2,210 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,882 |
| 1995 | — | — | 44 | #1,931 |
| 1994 | — | — | 64 | #1,480 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,364 |
| 1992 | — | — | 74 | #1,311 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,404 |
| 1990 | — | — | 91 | #1,130 |
| 1989 | — | — | 101 | #1,027 |
| 1988 | — | — | 115 | #892 |
| 1987 | — | — | 75 | #1,109 |
| 1986 | — | — | 43 | #1,547 |
| 1985 | — | — | 50 | #1,379 |
| 1984 | — | — | 53 | #1,271 |
| 1983 | — | — | 48 | #1,349 |
| 1982 | — | — | 45 | #1,428 |
| 1981 | — | — | 44 | #1,441 |
| 1980 | — | — | 50 | #1,328 |
| 1979 | — | — | 47 | #1,359 |
| 1978 | — | — | 49 | #1,291 |
| 1977 | — | — | 48 | #1,294 |
| 1976 | — | — | 53 | #1,182 |
| 1975 | — | — | 39 | #1,415 |
| 1974 | — | — | 46 | #1,234 |
| 1973 | — | — | 34 | #1,478 |
| 1972 | — | — | 33 | #1,480 |
| 1971 | — | — | 28 | #1,685 |
| 1970 | — | — | 36 | #1,402 |
| 1969 | — | — | 36 | #1,334 |
| 1968 | — | — | 31 | #1,408 |
| 1967 | — | — | 32 | #1,350 |
| 1966 | — | — | 20 | #1,734 |
| 1965 | — | — | 32 | #1,365 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,819 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,716 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,687 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,361 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,360 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,060 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,053 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,413 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #1,993 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,015 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,880 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,874 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).