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Geraldine vs Geremiah

American parents have registered 212,097 Geraldines since 1880, against 579 Geremiahs. Geraldine is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Geraldine against Geremiah, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Geraldine Geremiah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Geraldine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Geraldine had 130 and Geremiah had 32.

Side by side

  Geraldine Geremiah
Total US births 212,097579
Most in one year 5,47139
Babies in 2025 7311
Estimated living today 77,000570
Median age today 7613
Peak year 19302012
Best rank 43rd girls2,954th boys
Rank in 2025 2,438th7,194th
First recorded 18801981
Girls / boys 211,349 / 7480 / 579

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Geraldines alive today are over 76; half the Geremiahs are over 13. That is 63 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Geraldine and Geremiah.