Georgena
Feminine · “A worker of the earth”
Georgena is one of about a dozen feminines English has made from George, none of which ever became the standard — which is what happens when a name is common for centuries and the language has no fixed way of converting it.
How old is the name Georgena?
Georgena first appears in US birth records in 1895 — 130 years ago. The typical Georgena alive today was born around 1944, making them about 81 years old. About 400 people named Georgena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Georgena most popular?
Georgena peaked in 1895, reaching #1426 nationally. See the whole 1895 chart.
Where it comes from
From Georgios to Georgena
The story of Georgena
Count them: Georgia, Georgina, Georgiana, Georgette, Georgene, Georgena, Georgie, Jorja. English has no grammatical way of making a feminine, so each attempt borrows an ending from somewhere — Latin, Italian, French — and none of them has the authority to settle the question. Compare a language with real gender marking, where the feminine of a man's name is produced automatically and there is only ever one. The ending in this version is the 1890s answer: an -ena that was briefly fashionable and was then displaced by the -ina spelling, which is why the two look like the same name and date twenty years apart.
Meaning
A worker of the earth — a farmer
The Greek name joins the words for earth and work, and it meant a farmer plainly. Every feminine built on it carries the same sense; the endings differ and the meaning does not.
How the name formed
- Georgios
- George
- Georgena
Related forms: Giorgina · Jorgina
Pronouncing Georgena
jor-JEE-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. JOR-juh-nuh is also heard.
Nicknames for Georgena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1895
- Most girls named
- 191922 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1426reached in 1895
- Change vs 1985
- −28.6%5 in 2010, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Georgena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Giorgina in Italian — related form
- Jorgina in Spanish — related form
Georgenas among us
people named Georgena are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Georgena sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, concrete and easy to explain.
- It shortens two ways and both short forms are established names.
- It is genuinely rare while being entirely familiar in sound.
- Georgina is the commoner spelling and hers will be written that way.
- Two stress patterns are possible.
- The name is closely tied to one American era.
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Frequently asked
- How many Georgenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Georgena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Georgena in 2025?
- Georgena is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Georgena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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