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Gerardo vs Gerrick

American parents have registered 55,254 Gerardos since 1880, against 566 Gerricks. Gerardo is still ahead, with 401 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gerardo Gerrick

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 1956, when Gerardo had 132 and Gerrick had 8.

Side by side

  Gerardo Gerrick
Total US births 55,254566
Most in one year 1,71333
Babies in 2025 401under 5
Estimated living today 52,000530
Median age today 2738
Peak year 20001989
Best rank 211th boys2,106th boys
Rank in 2025 678thunranked
First recorded 19061956
Girls / boys 239 / 55,0150 / 566

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 Gerricks alive today are over 38; half the Gerardos are over 27. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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