Geri
Geri is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 500th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1958368 births
- Best rank
- #500in 1958
- Since 1918
- 8,021people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,021 girls have been named Geri in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 368 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 368 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Geri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 32 | |
| 1930s | 226 | |
| 1940s | 834 | |
| 1950s | 2,280 | |
| 1960s | 2,466 | |
| 1970s | 1,081 | |
| 1980s | 688 | |
| 1990s | 266 | |
| 2000s | 115 | |
| 2010s | 28 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Geri was the 500th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Geri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beckypeak 1959
- Gerripeak 1958
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Jerripeak 1957
- Jeripeak 1957
- Dorindapeak 1957
- Merripeak 1963
- Laureenpeak 1958
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.