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Georgette vs Georgina

American parents have registered 17,591 Georginas since 1880, against 13,462 Georgettes. Georgina is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Georgette against Georgina, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Georgette Georgina

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

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Georgina for 99 years and Georgette for 46 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Georgette Georgina
Total US births 13,46217,591
Most in one year 307447
Babies in 2025 38410
Estimated living today 8,60014,000
Median age today 6240
Peak year 19482024
Best rank 455th girls656th girls
Rank in 2025 3,832nd689th
First recorded 18881880
Girls / boys 13,462 / 017,591 / 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 Georgettes alive today are over 62; half the Georginas are over 40. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Georgette Georgina
France 152,8653,780
England and Wales 13115,714
Scotland 8939

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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