Given name
Geralyn
“one who rules with the spear”
Geralyn is a variant of Geraldine. In German use, Geraldine carries the interpretation “one who rules with the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Geralyn is a variant of Geraldine. In German use, Geraldine carries the interpretation “one who rules with the spear.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Geralyn is a variant of Geraldine. The history of Geraldine gives this family its wider story. The Earl of Surrey created Geraldine in the sixteenth century in a poem praising Lady Fitzgerald. Geraldine remained little used for a time before becoming more established in the eighteenth century.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Geralyn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,875
- 0 boys · 4,875 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 346 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 girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 346 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,494 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geralyn’s family of names
Geralyn has a related form in Geraldine.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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