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Gerardo vs Geremy

American parents have registered 55,254 Gerardos since 1880, against 1,283 Geremys. Gerardo is still ahead, with 401 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gerardo against Geremy, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gerardo Geremy

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

Gerardo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Gerardo had 688 and Geremy had 48.

Side by side

  Gerardo Geremy
Total US births 55,2541,283
Most in one year 1,71357
Babies in 2025 4015
Estimated living today 52,0001,200
Median age today 2734
Peak year 20001989
Best rank 211th boys1,452nd boys
Rank in 2025 678th12,008th
First recorded 19061970
Girls / boys 239 / 55,0150 / 1,283

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 Geremys alive today are over 34; half the Gerardos are over 27. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Gerardo Geremy
France 205455

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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