Given name & surname
Geary
“one who is flexible”
Geary is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who is flexible.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is flexible.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Geary through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,457
- 2,457 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1953
- 201 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 201 in 1953. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,688 as a first name in 2020; 11,784 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geary’s family of names
Geary has a related form in Geri. Geary has a related form in Gery. Geary has a related form in Gerie.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Gerevariant · English
- Gerievariant
- Gerivariant
- Geryvariant
- Gearrylikely variant
- Geervariant · English
- Gereavariant
- Gereevariant
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