Geraldine Forename
2,366th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 431,918 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Ireland
Geraldine Forename Definition:
A female name. this name seems to have been invented by the poet Surrey who, c. 1540, celebrated the beauty of Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, d. of the 9th Earl of Kildare, under the name of ‘the fair Geraldine’ (Geraldine = one of the Fitzgeralds).
Read More About This ForenameGeraldine Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 177,657 | 1:2,041 | 400 |
| Philippines | 98% | 85,516 | 1:1,240 | 254 |
| England | 100% | 26,046 | 1:2,135 | 349 |
| France | 100% | 19,074 | 1:3,485 | 371 |
| Ireland | 100% | 17,614 | 1:264 | 48 |
| South Africa | 100% | 11,626 | 1:4,691 | 888 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 9,212 | 1:19,275 | 1,990 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 8,252 | 1:3,660 | 520 |
| Canada | 100% | 7,093 | 1:4,671 | 736 |
| Chile | 100% | 5,496 | 1:3,204 | 392 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 5,459 | 1:3,959 | 666 |
| Australia | - | 4,903 | 1:2,786 | 470 |
| Haiti | 100% | 4,695 | 1:2,285 | 362 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 4,162 | 1:443 | 106 |
| Peru | 100% | 4,150 | 1:7,661 | 983 |
| Scotland | 100% | 2,332 | 1:2,294 | 318 |
| Mexico | 100% | 2,316 | 1:53,603 | 1,932 |
| Belgium | 100% | 2,011 | 1:5,714 | 809 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,939 | 1:8,717 | 1,127 |
| Chad | 100% | 1,483 | 1:9,170 | 1,426 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,372 | 1:2,101 | 475 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,340 | 1:22,994 | 3,005 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,311 | 1:2,360 | 399 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 1,134 | 1:7,189 | 752 |
| Argentina | 100% | 1,054 | 1:40,582 | 1,289 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,038 | 1:93,139 | 2,035 |
| Ghana | - | 1,011 | 1:26,693 | 1,799 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,002 | 1:20,758 | 2,728 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 911 | 1:81,040 | 4,549 |
| Benin | 100% | 897 | 1:11,790 | 1,508 |
| New Zealand | - | 894 | 1:5,074 | 704 |
| Gabon | - | 802 | 1:2,348 | 565 |
| Panama | 100% | 748 | 1:5,223 | 873 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 711 | 1:42,827 | 3,657 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 705 | 1:15,037 | 1,268 |
| Spain | 100% | 699 | 1:66,566 | 2,343 |
| Singapore | 99% | 677 | 1:9,287 | 1,883 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 655 | 1:15,926 | 1,614 |
| Uganda | 100% | 634 | 1:64,601 | 3,479 |
| Namibia | - | 586 | 1:4,103 | 646 |
| Congo | 100% | 558 | 1:8,977 | 1,182 |
| Kenya | - | 537 | 1:86,233 | 4,822 |
| Morocco | - | 519 | 1:66,182 | 2,499 |
| Brazil | 100% | 509 | 1:420,896 | 14,639 |
| Bahamas | - | 494 | 1:808 | 207 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 420 | 1:14,329 | 1,269 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 413 | 1:55,874 | 4,009 |
| Thailand | 100% | 411 | 1:170,476 | 11,955 |
| Ecuador | - | 408 | 1:43,448 | 1,652 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 405 | 1:11,773 | 1,036 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 356 | 1:43,325 | 3,917 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 317 | 1:25,910 | 1,602 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 280 | 1:84,892 | 10,714 |
| Colombia | 100% | 277 | 1:172,487 | 4,349 |
| Belize | 100% | 267 | 1:1,327 | 293 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 257 | 1:5,297 | 904 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 256 | 1:609 | 194 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 255 | 1:5,089 | 810 |
| India | 100% | 254 | 1:4,782,984 | 185,794 |
| Egypt | - | 239 | 1:384,523 | 11,247 |
| Malawi | 100% | 212 | 1:80,718 | 4,695 |
| Guam | - | 209 | 1:769 | 148 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 208 | 1:77,444 | 1,996 |
| Italy | 100% | 196 | 1:311,541 | 3,840 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 191 | 1:1,414 | 302 |
| Liberia | 100% | 181 | 1:24,376 | 1,605 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 177 | 1:1,457,422 | 81,609 |
| Malta | - | 170 | 1:2,526 | 443 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 170 | 1:20,163 | 1,105 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 161 | 1:617 | 78 |
| Portugal | - | 157 | 1:66,311 | 2,082 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 149 | 1:48,000 | 4,380 |
| Bahrain | - | 148 | 1:9,113 | 1,459 |
| Guyana | 100% | 140 | 1:5,452 | 975 |
| Austria | 100% | 126 | 1:67,573 | 1,735 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 110 | 1:65,789 | 2,093 |
| Vanuatu | - | 106 | 1:2,470 | 570 |
| Aruba | - | 100 | 1:1,038 | 214 |
| Israel | 100% | 100 | 1:84,029 | 3,978 |
| Zambia | - | 99 | 1:160,149 | 6,174 |
| French Polynesia | - | 97 | 1:2,865 | 584 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 94 | 1:195,526 | 8,802 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 94 | 1:1,168 | 239 |
| Japan | - | 93 | 1:1,376,194 | 17,045 |
| Lebanon | 98% | 93 | 1:60,512 | 2,560 |
| Sweden | 100% | 93 | 1:105,999 | 4,465 |
| Barbados | - | 92 | 1:3,150 | 592 |
| El Salvador | - | 88 | 1:72,066 | 1,867 |
| Qatar | 100% | 87 | 1:27,237 | 3,729 |
| Saint Lucia | 97% | 87 | 1:2,044 | 373 |
| Jersey | 100% | 82 | 1:1,219 | 263 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 72 | 1:759 | 145 |
| Dominica | - | 63 | 1:1,198 | 227 |
| Hong Kong | - | 58 | 1:133,668 | 2,996 |
| Grenada | 100% | 57 | 1:1,897 | 398 |
| Norway | 100% | 53 | 1:96,836 | 3,172 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 49 | 1:232,070 | 1,122 |
| Honduras | 100% | 48 | 1:183,697 | 4,488 |
| Botswana | 100% | 47 | 1:46,478 | 4,592 |
| Guernsey | - | 42 | 1:1,508 | 269 |
| China | - | 39 | 1:35,027,071 | 61,373 |
| Luxembourg | - | 35 | 1:16,116 | 1,095 |
| Denmark | - | 30 | 1:188,317 | 4,268 |
| Greece | 100% | 30 | 1:364,485 | 5,634 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 29 | 1:3,848 | 708 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 27 | 1:131,493 | 2,148 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 26 | 1:1,202 | 282 |
| Madagascar | - | 25 | 1:945,176 | 2,170 |
| Bermuda | - | 24 | 1:2,701 | 544 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 24 | 1:2,286 | 512 |
| Senegal | 100% | 24 | 1:607,556 | 7,223 |
| Hungary | 100% | 20 | 1:489,589 | 1,828 |
| Gibraltar | - | 18 | 1:1,897 | 362 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 16 | 1:6,097,508 | 12,067 |
| American Samoa | - | 14 | 1:3,989 | 735 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 14 | 1:3,770,594 | 24,827 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 13 | 1:2,509,501 | 20,196 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 13 | 1:14,950,591 | 86,698 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 13 | 1:44,689 | 2,823 |
| Iceland | - | 10 | 1:36,602 | 2,190 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Finland | 86% | 9 | 1:609,243 | 6,562 |
| Mali | 100% | 9 | 1:1,886,417 | 3,997 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 8 | 1:1,657 | 292 |
| Jordan | 100% | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| Cuba | - | 6 | 1:1,917,759 | 4,898 |
| South Korea | - | 6 | 1:924,070 | 17,138 |
| Vietnam | - | 6 | 1:15,437,186 | 4,625 |
| Cambodia | - | 5 | 1:3,254,666 | 31,163 |
| Monaco | - | 5 | 1:7,693 | 1,062 |
| Montserrat | - | 5 | 1:975 | 152 |
| Turkey | - | 5 | 1:15,560,342 | 40,635 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 4 | 1:15,325 | 1,588 |
| Djibouti | - | 4 | 1:228,916 | 1,301 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 4 | 1:21,256 | 352 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Nauru | 100% | 4 | 1:2,982 | 284 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 3 | 1:290,359 | 3,456 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Niger | 100% | 3 | 1:6,394,665 | 47,369 |
| Romania | - | 3 | 1:6,683,992 | 44,661 |
| Russia | 100% | 3 | 1:48,077,901 | 98,779 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 3 | 1:1,943 | 243 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 2 | 1:18,928 | 806 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Czechia | - | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Poland | 100% | 1 | 1:38,027,112 | 9,241 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | - | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Géraldine (11,071), Gèraldine (78) & Géraldiné (1) are calculated separately.
Geraldine (2,718) may also be a surname.
Geraldine Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. this name seems to have been invented by the poet Surrey who, c. 1540, celebrated the beauty of Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, d. of the 9th Earl of Kildare, under the name of ‘the fair Geraldine’ (Geraldine = one of the Fitzgeralds). Drayton (1597) published in his Heroicall Epistles one entitled ‘The Lady Geraldine to the Earl of Surrey’. It may have been from one or other of these that Coleridge took the name for use in Christabel (written c. 1800, first published 1816). But the use of Geraldine as a christian name seems to antedate the publication of Christabel, for Geraldine Jewsbury, the writer and friend of Mrs Carlyle, was born in 1812, and in the cloister of Wells Cathedral there is an inscription in memory of Geraldina Eugenia Wallace (b. 1811, d. 1820).
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
The English f. of Gerald looks as if it were prompted by both Italian Giralda and German Gerhardine, which are f. For ‘suggestibility’.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Teutonic (feminine) - Warlike chief.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Teutonic name, meaning: Fair battlemaid.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Geraldine Forename Popularity
Geraldine Demographics
Average Geraldine Salary in
United States
$38,631 USD
Per year
Rank:
272,734 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0529829
Rank: 373 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
88.75%
Sample size: 113,060 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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