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Geordie

About 93 American babies have been named Geordie since 1961, most of them around 1961. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 90 Geordies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Geordie

By the numbers

Total US births
93
Estimated living today
90
Median age today
27
Peak year
1961
Best rank
3,097th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1961

How old the living Geordies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 93 babies given the name since 1961, about 90 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Geordies

People named Geordie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1961

The most popular boys’ names the year Geordie peaked:

All the names of 1961

Geordie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Geordie 145 1,786th
France boys Geordie 45 3,398th
Scotland boys Geordie 35 361st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Geordie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.