Masculine dossier · first seen 1912

Gerold

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Gerold
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1939

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1912Peak 19392024

Peak year

1939

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,965

Gerold has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1939, when 90 boys were named Gerold.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,965 Americans have been named Gerold and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1912.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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