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Georgette vs Georgianne

American parents have registered 13,462 Georgettes since 1880, against 1,339 Georgiannes. Georgette is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Georgette Georgianne

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 1939, when Georgette had 83 and Georgianne had 27.

Side by side

  Georgette Georgianne
Total US births 13,4621,339
Most in one year 30749
Babies in 2025 38under 5
Estimated living today 8,600870
Median age today 6271
Peak year 19481943
Best rank 455th girls1,154th girls
Rank in 2025 3,832ndunranked
First recorded 18881917
Girls / boys 13,462 / 01,339 / 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 Georgiannes alive today are over 71; half the Georgettes are over 62. That is 9 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: Georgette and Georgianne.