Jeraldine
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Jeraldine by the numbers
Jeraldine was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 188 babies in 1942, so it is a 1940s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Jeraldine
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jeraldine. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Jeanninefeminine form of jean, god is gracious6 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Jeraldine
Names that are said the same way as Jeraldine, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Geraldinespear ruler; feminine form of Gerald132 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jeraldine
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