Geraldo

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Geraldo is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variante regional de Gheraldo/Gherardo.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 808◐
  • DODominican Republic1 in 6.3K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 16K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈268K ●

across 8 countries

#507 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
238 ●

160K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 808 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Géraldo in BJ Benin.

Meaning & origin●

variante regional de Gheraldo/Gherardo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Geraldo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#96261,939△71K rec.1 in 808340KGeraldo184
VE Venezuela—11,9429.2K rec.—2.2KGeraldo26
PH Philippines—9,31713K rec.——Geraldo32
US United States—5,29428K rec.1 in 63K5.3KGeraldo238
AR Argentina—3,8264.7K rec.—309Geraldo38
PE Peru—3,7313.8K rec.——Geraldo40
MX Mexico—3,59316K rec.—175Geraldo83
CL Chile—3,312500 rec.—1Geraldo50
DO Dominican Republic#1161,5732.5K rec.——Geraldo35
AL Albania—673—1 in 4.6K673——
PT Portugal#830596355 rec.—listedGeraldo59
GB United Kingdom—592996 rec.——Geraldo46

Roughly 262K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 808). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese5M93%
  • English290K5%
  • Spanish49K1%
  • 4.3K1%
  • Albanian3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese5,011,82793%
English290,4305%
Spanish48,7551%
4,3491%
Albanian2,9691%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Geraldo is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name303K records spelled Geraldo10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Geràldo, Géraldo

  • a separate given name6.1K records spelled Geraldo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Canada

    Also written Géraldo

  • French given name3.7K records spelled Geraldo3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Géraldo

  • Albanian given name3.0K records spelled Geraldo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Gèraldò, Gèråldó, Géràldö

  • Indonesian given name2.3K records spelled Geraldo3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Géraldo

  • Italian given name866 records spelled Geraldo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Italy, Canada

    Also written Géraldo

  • Russian given name823 records spelled Geraldo9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гералдо, Géraldo, Жералду, Жералдо

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Geraldo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, pers. name (G. Rivera)

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • El que domina con su lanza

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Italian, Variante di Gherardi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Spanish, Germanic Gerald, from ger 'spear' + (w)ald 'rule'; 'rule of the spear'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

051015201920194019601980200017 · 1965

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Geraldo in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1920–2018
Yearrecords
19202
19213
19223
19232
19243
19254
19263
19272
19284
19298
19307
19313
19329
19335
19349
19354
19365
19374
19384
19394
194010
19418
194211
194310
194410
19459
194610
194710
194810
194911
195010
19518
19528
195311
195413
19559
195610
195714
195811
19598
196010
19618
19625
196314
19647
196517
196613
196712
196811
19698
19709
19716
197213
19735
19744
197512
197611
197710
19788
19796
19807
19818
19828
19838
19844
19852
19866
19872
19886
19893
19907
19913
199212
19937
19943
19956
199610
19976
19982
19994
20005
20016
20023
20041
20052
20063
20071
20083
20091
20114
20121
20141
20171
20181

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 94 years between 1920–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Geraldo Del Rey, b. 1930Geraldo Majella Agnelo, b. 1933Geraldo Sarno, b. 1938Geraldo Rivera, b. 1943Geraldo Azevedo, b. 1945Geraldo Carneiro, b. 1952Geraldo Dutra Pereira, b. 1963Geraldo dos Santos Júnior, b. 1979Geraldo Washington Regufe Alves, b. 1980

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 62 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Geraldo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—340K#140
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022262K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—261K#118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.3K#3,757
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—2.2K#716
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—909#118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020757#32,541
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—673#735
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010548#40,016
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000507#40,622
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—502#7,958
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—502#7,952

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 491 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Geraldo?
We estimate roughly 268 thousand people bear Geraldo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Geraldo have the most bearers?
We estimate about 262 thousand people bear Geraldo in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled geraldo.
Where is Geraldo most common?
Geraldo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 808 people carrying it.
How common is Geraldo compared with other names?
In Brazil, Geraldo is the 96th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Geraldo a male or female name?
Geraldo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Geraldo mean?
Recorded meaning: variante regional de Gheraldo/Gherardo
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Geraldo” — the 96th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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