Boy
Gerald
The name Gerald carries the meaning "Rule of the spear", with roots in Germanic. It belongs mostly to the 1940s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
GermanicRule of the spear
Old GermanOne who commands with the spear
Births by decade
1900s
2,014
1910s
16,617
1920s
44,870
1930s
83,258
1940s
103,722
1950s
82,934
1960s
55,657
1970s
26,401
1980s
15,648
1990s
9,818
2000s
5,145
2010s
2,537
Peaked in the 1940s · 448,621 total U.S. births since 1900