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Georgia vs Georgiana

American parents have registered 167,019 Georgias since 1880, against 9,992 Georgianas. Georgia is still ahead, with 2,619 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Georgia against Georgiana, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Georgia Georgiana

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

Georgia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1976, when Georgia had 342 and Georgiana had 48.

Side by side

  Georgia Georgiana
Total US births 167,0199,992
Most in one year 2,619172
Babies in 2025 2,619153
Estimated living today 83,0004,900
Median age today 4545
Peak year 20251918
Best rank 99th girls535th girls
Rank in 2025 99th1,417th
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 166,290 / 7299,992 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Georgia Georgiana
England and Wales 49,1181,004
Scotland 3,27514
France 1,750100
Ireland 1,65713
Switzerland 13212

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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