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Georgette vs Georgieann

American parents have registered 13,462 Georgettes since 1880, against 21 Georgieanns. Georgette is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Georgette Georgieann

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 1942, when Georgette had 164 and Georgieann had 9.

Side by side

  Georgette Georgieann
Total US births 13,46221
Most in one year 3079
Babies in 2025 38under 5
Estimated living today 8,60012
Median age today 6282
Peak year 19481942
Best rank 455th girls3,194th girls
Rank in 2025 3,832ndunranked
First recorded 18881942
Girls / boys 13,462 / 021 / 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 Georgieanns alive today are over 82; half the Georgettes are over 62. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Georgette and Georgieann.