Gerardo
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · #678 for boys in 2025, 401 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 1,510 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 55,015since 1906
Gerardo over time
Rank among boys' names. Gerardo has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #678 | 401 | |
| 2024 | — | #595 | 483 | |
| 2023 | — | #589 | 486 | |
| 2022 | — | #581 | 493 | |
| 2021 | — | #568 | 496 | |
| 2020 | — | #555 | 510 | |
| 2019 | — | #578 | 482 | |
| 2018 | — | #560 | 491 | |
| 2017 | — | #470 | 637 | |
| 2016 | — | #452 | 682 | |
| 2015 | — | #418 | 744 | |
| 2014 | — | #401 | 773 | |
| 2013 | — | #398 | 756 | |
| 2012 | — | #371 | 817 | |
| 2011 | — | #359 | 836 | |
| 2010 | — | #354 | 864 | |
| 2009 | — | #322 | 993 | |
| 2008 | — | #290 | 1,174 | |
| 2007 | — | #261 | 1,335 | |
| 2006 | — | #268 | 1,292 | |
| 2005 | — | #252 | 1,312 | |
| 2004 | — | #236 | 1,414 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #239 | 1,399 |
| 2002 | — | #234 | 1,442 | |
| 2001 | — | #227 | 1,520 | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #211 | 1,703 |
| 1999 | — | #218 | 1,568 | |
| 1998 | — | #217 | 1,472 | |
| 1997 | — | #214 | 1,433 | |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #205 | 1,510 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #226 | 1,324 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #228 | 1,286 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #220 | 1,356 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #228 | 1,299 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #239 | 1,182 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #254 | 1,065 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #267 | 934 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #276 | 837 |
| 1987 | — | #309 | 688 | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #294 | 710 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #289 | 709 |
| 1984 | — | #313 | 624 | |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #284 | 715 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #292 | 690 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #288 | 699 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #307 | 636 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #288 | 698 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #309 | 576 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #305 | 631 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | #278 | 680 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #263 | 740 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #337 | 517 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #365 | 448 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #366 | 461 |
| 1971 | — | #375 | 461 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #384 | 445 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #423 | 346 |
| 1968 | — | #413 | 349 | |
| 1967 | — | #420 | 329 | |
| 1966 | — | #445 | 297 | |
| 1965 | — | #428 | 324 | |
| 1964 | — | #484 | 265 | |
| 1963 | — | #467 | 285 | |
| 1962 | — | #501 | 253 | |
| 1961 | — | #510 | 242 | |
| 1960 | — | #519 | 233 | |
| 1959 | — | #550 | 202 | |
| 1958 | — | #582 | 177 | |
| 1957 | — | #597 | 166 | |
| 1956 | — | #659 | 132 | |
| 1955 | — | #594 | 153 | |
| 1954 | — | #677 | 113 | |
| 1953 | — | #701 | 102 | |
| 1952 | — | #814 | 74 | |
| 1951 | — | #716 | 94 | |
| 1950 | — | #806 | 71 | |
| 1949 | — | #967 | 51 | |
| 1948 | — | #910 | 57 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,116 | 42 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,145 | 37 | |
| 1945 | — | #971 | 43 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,282 | 27 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,833 | 16 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,537 | 21 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,485 | 21 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,251 | 29 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,712 | 16 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,439 | 22 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,872 | 14 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,538 | 20 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,540 | 20 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,584 | 20 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,458 | 23 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,299 | 30 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,564 | 22 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,760 | 19 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,322 | 31 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,565 | 23 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,012 | 16 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,753 | 20 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,282 | 32 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,588 | 23 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,336 | 13 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,811 | 18 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,398 | 12 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,188 | 13 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,152 | 13 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,968 | 14 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,975 | 11 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,497 | 13 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,193 | 8 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Gerardo! It came in at #1,253, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Gerardo
- 83 spots since 2024 (#595 → #678)
- 123 spots since 2020 (#555 → #678)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#418 → #678)
- Biggest jump: 311 spots in 1945 (#1,282 → #971)
- Biggest drop: 174 spots in 1946 (#971 → #1,145)
- Debuted 1906
- Peaked 1996 at #205 (1,510 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 79 yrs · run 1948–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,153 boys born in 2000 were named Gerardo (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,260 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #205 in 1996, was only 1 in 1,255 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.7% of all boys named Gerardo (13,584) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | #1,253 (1906) | #1,313 |
| 1910s | 111 | #1,193 (1910) | #1,881 |
| 1920s | 217 | #1,282 (1922) | #1,708 |
| 1930s | 197 | #1,299 (1930) | #1,614 |
| 1940s | 344 | #910 (1948) | #1,250 |
| 1950s | 1,284 | #550 (1959) | #670 |
| 1960s | 2,923 | #413 (1968) | #461 |
| 1970s | 5,657 | #263 (1975) | #327 |
| 1980s | 7,242 | #267 (1989) | #292 |
| 1990s | 13,495 | #205 (1996) | #225 |
| 2000s | 13,584 | #211 (2000) | #254 |
| 2010s | 7,082 | #354 (2010) | #436 |
| 2020s | 2,869 | #555 (2020) | #594 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gerardo in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 143,402 of them was named Gerardo, which outranked 54.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,348Yentl13
- #5,348Zelda13
- #5,348Zully13
- #5,678Gerardo12
- #5,678Aaisha12
- #5,678Addison12
- #5,678Aimie12
- #6,031Aaryn11
- #6,031Adella11
- #6,031Adi11
Tied with 352 names at #5,678; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 2,607 of them was named Gerardo, which outranked 96.2% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.