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Geo

Geo reached its high-water mark in 2022 at number 2,468, and has been recorded 1,324 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,036th. About 550 Geos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Geo boys named Geo

By the numbers

Total US births
1,324
Estimated living today
550
Median age today
6
Peak year
2022
Best rank
2,468th
Rank in 2025
3,036th
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
16 / 1,308

How old the living Geos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,324 babies given the name since 1880, about 550 are alive — 41 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Geos

People named Geo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Geo is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Geo is most concentrated in California (6.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular boys’ names the year Geo peaked:

All the names of 2022

Geo elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Geo +1 spelling 150 441st
Switzerland boys Geo 55 830th
England and Wales boys Geo 29 3,004th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Geo: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Geo 7 0.001% 1,233rd
French boys Switzerland Geo 1 0.000% 591st
Italian boys Switzerland Geo 47 0.072% 75th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Geo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.07% of children were given it – 44 of them.

Geo among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Geo 6 9

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Geo against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Geo with a name of your own

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.