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Georgeanne vs Georgette

American parents have registered 13,462 Georgettes since 1880, against 1,119 Georgeannes. Georgette is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Georgeanne against Georgette, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Georgeanne Georgette

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

Georgette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1941, when Georgeanne had 35 and Georgette had 93.

Side by side

  Georgeanne Georgette
Total US births 1,11913,462
Most in one year 44307
Babies in 2025 under 538
Estimated living today 8008,600
Median age today 6962
Peak year 19451948
Best rank 1,187th girls455th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,832nd
First recorded 19191888
Girls / boys 1,119 / 013,462 / 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 Georgeannes alive today are over 69; half the Georgettes are over 62. That is 7 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: Georgeanne and Georgette.