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Geoffrey vs Georgann

American parents have registered 54,534 Geoffreys since 1880, against 1,723 Georganns. Geoffrey is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Geoffrey against Georgann, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Geoffrey Georgann

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 120 years in which either name was published, Geoffrey for 119 years and Georgann for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Geoffrey Georgann
Total US births 54,5341,723
Most in one year 1,39578
Babies in 2025 31under 5
Estimated living today 46,0001,100
Median age today 4772
Peak year 19751953
Best rank 167th boys1,099th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rdunranked
First recorded 18951917
Girls / boys 140 / 54,3941,723 / 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 Georganns alive today are over 72; half the Geoffreys are over 47. That is 25 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: Geoffrey and Georgann.