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Georgeen vs Georgie

American parents have registered 14,444 Georgies since 1880, against 48 Georgeens. Georgie is still ahead, with 178 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Georgeen against Georgie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Georgeen Georgie

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

Georgie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Georgeen had 8 and Georgie had 69.

Side by side

  Georgeen Georgie
Total US births 4814,444
Most in one year 12324
Babies in 2025 under 5178
Estimated living today 404,800
Median age today 7257
Peak year 19471925
Best rank 3,061st girls400th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,359th
First recorded 19471880
Girls / boys 48 / 012,799 / 1,645

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 Georgies are over 57. That is 15 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 Georgie.