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Gerardo vs Gerrie

American parents have registered 55,254 Gerardos since 1880, against 1,378 Gerries. Gerardo is still ahead, with 401 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gerardo Gerrie

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

Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Gerardo for 105 years and Gerrie for 12 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Gerardo Gerrie
Total US births 55,2541,378
Most in one year 1,71353
Babies in 2025 401under 5
Estimated living today 52,000890
Median age today 2768
Peak year 20001947
Best rank 211th boys1,290th girls
Rank in 2025 678thunranked
First recorded 19061918
Girls / boys 239 / 55,0151,367 / 11

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 Gerries alive today are over 68; half the Gerardos are over 27. That is 41 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: Gerardo and Gerrie.