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Georgie vs Georgieann

American parents have registered 14,444 Georgies since 1880, against 21 Georgieanns. Georgie is still ahead, with 178 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Georgie Georgieann

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 1949, when Georgie had 109 and Georgieann had 6.

Side by side

  Georgie Georgieann
Total US births 14,44421
Most in one year 3249
Babies in 2025 178under 5
Estimated living today 4,80012
Median age today 5782
Peak year 19251942
Best rank 400th girls3,194th girls
Rank in 2025 1,359thunranked
First recorded 18801942
Girls / boys 12,799 / 1,64521 / 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 Georgieanns alive today are over 82; half the Georgies are over 57. That is 25 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: Georgie and Georgieann.