Meaning not yet researched.
Gerardo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 401 in 2025. Its best rank was #205 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #205 in 1996; #678 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gerardo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#678 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #205.
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Gerardo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 401 boys in 2025. Peak: #205 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 1,703 (2000).
In 2025, 401 US boys were named Gerardo, making it the 678th most common boys’ name of the year, down 83 places from #595 in 2024. That is 82 fewer than the 483 boys named Gerardo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #205, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,703, in 2000. For comparison, it was #418 in 2015 and #808 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gerardo in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 55,254 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 13,599 babies named Gerardo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,161 US boys were named Gerardo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 682. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,260 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gerardo ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #313 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerald (451,351 babies since 1880), Gerard (58,932 babies since 1880), Gerold (2,966 babies since 1880) and Gerhard (2,429 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jerardo are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jerardo (1,462).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Gerardo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 120 | #313 | #195 |
| California | 102 | #346 | #228 |
| Nevada | 8 | #373 | #285 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #396 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #417 | #658 |
| Arizona | 15 | #474 | #237 |
| Illinois | 17 | #551 | #457 |
| Colorado | 10 | #552 | #325 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #581 | #459 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #584 | #569 |
| Georgia | 13 | #727 | #808 |
| Washington | 6 | #931 | #612 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #962 | #786 |
| Florida | 14 | #973 | #525 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,165 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,343 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,851 | #1,699 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 401 | #678 |
| 2024 | — | — | 483 | #595 |
| 2023 | — | — | 486 | #589 |
| 2022 | — | — | 493 | #581 |
| 2021 | — | — | 496 | #569 |
| 2020 | — | — | 510 | #555 |
| 2019 | — | — | 482 | #578 |
| 2018 | — | — | 491 | #560 |
| 2017 | — | — | 637 | #470 |
| 2016 | — | — | 682 | #453 |
| 2015 | — | — | 744 | #418 |
| 2014 | — | — | 773 | #402 |
| 2013 | — | — | 756 | #398 |
| 2012 | — | — | 817 | #371 |
| 2011 | — | — | 836 | #359 |
| 2010 | — | — | 864 | #354 |
| 2009 | — | — | 993 | #322 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,174 | #290 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,335 | #261 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,292 | #268 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,312 | #253 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,414 | #236 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,618 | 1,399 | #239 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,442 | #234 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,520 | #227 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,412 | 1,703 | #211 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,568 | #218 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,472 | #217 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,433 | #214 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,498 | 1,510 | #205 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,372 | 1,324 | #226 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,261 | 1,286 | #230 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,765 | 1,356 | #220 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,792 | 1,299 | #228 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,756 | 1,182 | #239 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,884 | 1,065 | #254 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,020 | 934 | #267 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,810 | 837 | #277 |
| 1987 | — | — | 688 | #310 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,306 | 710 | #294 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,773 | 709 | #289 |
| 1984 | — | — | 624 | #313 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,897 | 715 | #285 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,049 | 690 | #292 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,481 | 699 | #288 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,437 | 636 | #307 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,874 | 698 | #288 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,897 | 576 | #309 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,028 | 631 | #305 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,822 | 680 | #278 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,413 | 740 | #263 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,436 | 517 | #337 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,859 | 448 | #365 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,145 | 461 | #366 |
| 1971 | — | — | 461 | #375 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,415 | 445 | #384 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,852 | 346 | #423 |
| 1968 | — | — | 349 | #413 |
| 1967 | — | — | 329 | #420 |
| 1966 | — | — | 297 | #445 |
| 1965 | — | — | 324 | #429 |
| 1964 | — | — | 265 | #484 |
| 1963 | — | — | 285 | #467 |
| 1962 | — | — | 253 | #501 |
| 1961 | — | — | 242 | #511 |
| 1960 | — | — | 233 | #519 |
| 1959 | — | — | 202 | #550 |
| 1958 | — | — | 177 | #582 |
| 1957 | — | — | 166 | #597 |
| 1956 | — | — | 132 | #661 |
| 1955 | — | — | 153 | #596 |
| 1954 | — | — | 113 | #677 |
| 1953 | — | — | 102 | #701 |
| 1952 | — | — | 74 | #817 |
| 1951 | — | — | 94 | #717 |
| 1950 | — | — | 71 | #808 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #977 |
| 1948 | — | — | 57 | #912 |
| 1947 | — | — | 42 | #1,128 |
| 1946 | — | — | 37 | #1,151 |
| 1945 | — | — | 43 | #976 |
| 1944 | — | — | 27 | #1,294 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,863 |
| 1942 | — | — | 21 | #1,555 |
| 1941 | — | — | 21 | #1,502 |
| 1940 | — | — | 29 | #1,258 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,746 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,456 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,253 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,912 |
| 1935 | — | — | 20 | #1,559 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,526 |
| 1933 | — | — | 20 | #1,560 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,607 |
| 1931 | — | — | 23 | #1,469 |
| 1930 | — | — | 30 | #1,313 |
| 1929 | — | — | 22 | #1,579 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,788 |
| 1927 | — | — | 31 | #1,331 |
| 1926 | — | — | 23 | #1,585 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,039 |
| 1924 | — | — | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,780 |
| 1922 | — | — | 32 | #1,291 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,606 |
| 1920 | — | — | 13 | #2,376 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,837 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,449 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,215 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,193 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #2,009 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,019 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,530 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,796 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,247 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,469 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,310 |
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).