Geoffrey vs Georgene

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Geoffrey Georgene

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 123 years in which either name was published, Geoffrey for 94 years and Georgene for 29 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1887–1890 Georgene ahead
• 1895–1903 Geoffrey ahead
• 1906 Georgene ahead
• 1908–1910 Geoffrey ahead
• 1911 Georgene ahead
• 1912–1913 Geoffrey ahead
• 1914–1938 Georgene ahead
• 1939–2025 Geoffrey ahead

Side by side

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 Georgenes alive today are over 75; half the Geoffreys are over 47. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Geoffrey the District of Columbia (2.8×), Connecticut (2.3×), Massachusetts (1.9×)
• Georgene Illinois (4.5×), Pennsylvania (3.9×), Ohio (3.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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