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Geoffery vs Georgie

American parents have registered 14,444 Georgies since 1880, against 1,514 Geofferys. Georgie is still ahead, with 178 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Geoffery 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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Georgie for 129 years and Geoffery for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Geoffery Georgie
Total US births 1,51414,444
Most in one year 59324
Babies in 2025 under 5178
Estimated living today 1,4004,800
Median age today 4357
Peak year 19901925
Best rank 1,464th boys400th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,359th
First recorded 19421880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,51412,799 / 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 Georgies alive today are over 57; half the Geofferys are over 43. That is 14 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.

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