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Georgianna vs Georgina

American parents have registered 17,591 Georginas since 1880, against 9,317 Georgiannas. Georgina is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Georgianna against Georgina, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Georgianna Georgina

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 146 years in which either name was published, Georgina for 74 years and Georgianna for 72 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Georgianna Georgina
Total US births 9,31717,591
Most in one year 180447
Babies in 2025 37410
Estimated living today 4,50014,000
Median age today 6340
Peak year 19422024
Best rank 554th girls656th girls
Rank in 2025 3,903rd689th
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 9,317 / 017,591 / 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 Georgiannas alive today are over 63; half the Georginas are over 40. That is 23 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Georgianna Georgina
England and Wales 5815,714

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: Georgianna and Georgina.