Geraldo
The boy's name Geraldo has been in the national records since 1948, with 2,395 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 2,200 Geraldos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Geraldo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,395
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 890th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1948
How old the living Geraldos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,395 babies given the name since 1948, about 2,200 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Geraldos
- Geraldo Rivera (born 1943)American attorney, journalist and talk show host
- Geraldo Alckmin (born 1952)Brazilian politician, 56th and 60th governor of São Paulo (2001-2006, 2011-2018) and 26th Vice President of Brazil since 2023
- Geraldo Majella Agnelo (1933–2023)Brazilian Cardinal
- Geraldo Francisco dos Santos (1962–2021)Brazilian footballer
- Geraldo Alves (born 1980)Portuguese association footballer
- Geraldo João MartinsPolitician from Guinea-Bissau
People named Geraldo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Geraldo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Geraldo is most concentrated in New York (5.6×), New Jersey (2.9×), Texas (2.1×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular boys’ names the year Geraldo peaked:
Geraldo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Geraldo | 70 | 5,015th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Geraldo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.