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Georgeen vs Georgette

American parents have registered 13,462 Georgettes since 1880, against 48 Georgeens. Georgette is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Georgeen against Georgette, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Georgeen Georgette

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Georgette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1947, when Georgeen had 12 and Georgette had 275.

Side by side

  Georgeen Georgette
Total US births 4813,462
Most in one year 12307
Babies in 2025 under 538
Estimated living today 408,600
Median age today 7262
Peak year 19471948
Best rank 3,061st girls455th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,832nd
First recorded 19471888
Girls / boys 48 / 013,462 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Georgeens alive today are over 72; half the Georgettes are over 62. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Georgeen and Georgette.