Fewer than five US girls were named Jeraldine in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #529, reached in 1939. The most girls given the name in a single year was 188, in 1942. For comparison, it was #9,767 in 2015 and #1,023 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeraldine in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 7 babies. In all, 4,345 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,226 babies named Jeraldine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 38 US girls were named Jeraldine; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 8.
Rarer spellings such as Jeraldin, Jeroldine and Jeraldene are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Serbian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.