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Geoffrey vs Georganne

American parents have registered 54,534 Geoffreys since 1880, against 1,257 Georgannes. Geoffrey is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Geoffrey Georganne

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

Geoffrey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1895 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1916, when Geoffrey had 9 and Georganne had 5.

Side by side

  Geoffrey Georganne
Total US births 54,5341,257
Most in one year 1,39557
Babies in 2025 31under 5
Estimated living today 46,000870
Median age today 4771
Peak year 19751952
Best rank 167th boys1,256th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rdunranked
First recorded 18951916
Girls / boys 140 / 54,3941,257 / 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 Georgannes alive today are over 71; half the Geoffreys are over 47. That is 24 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 Georganne.