Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Gearlene

#27,490 most common girls' name of all time · #44,516 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1933–1955

Rank among girls
#27,490
Rank overall
#44,516 of 105,966
First appeared
1933
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
78
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1934 #2,921
Best rank
#2,921 1934
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1940

Gearlene first appears in 1933. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1955 6 — 6 #5,548
1948 6 — 6 #5,046
1945 5 — 5 #5,063
1944 5 — 5 #5,040
1941 6 — 6 #4,348
1940 6 — 6 #4,265
1939 8 — 8 #3,409
1938 6 — 6 #4,283
1936 6 — 6 #4,140
1935 9 — 9 #3,150
1934 10 — 10 #2,921
1933 5 — 5 #4,816