How popular is the name Geralyn?

Geralyn ranks 2,024th among girls' names in US records, with 5,330 births since 1929. Over the past decade it accounts for 28.

Is Geralyn a unisex name?

No. Geralyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1956, when 370 children were given the name. It has been in use for 96 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Geralynn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#2,024 of girl names

Pronounced JH EH1 R AH0 L IH1 N (ARPABET)

Geralyn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1929. It has been given to 5,330 children — the 2,024th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 28 births across the past decade, against a peak of 370 in a single year. That peak was in 1956.

Geralynn is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Geralyn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Geralyn?: Geralyn ranks 2,024th among girls' names in US records, with 5,330 births since 1929. Over the past decade it accounts for 28.
Is Geralyn a unisex name?: No. Geralyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Geralyn most popular?: 1956, when 370 children were given the name. It has been in use for 96 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Geralyn spelled?: Geralynn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.