Georgia
Masculine · “farmer”
Georgia is given to girls far more often — 166,290 girls against 729 boys since 1880. See Georgia as a girl name
Georgia is a state, a country and a woman's name, recorded here for boys as well as girls. The painter who made it famous in America spent her career refusing an interpretation of her own work that everybody else found irresistible.
How old is the name Georgia?
Georgia first appears in US birth records in 1884 — 141 years ago. The typical Georgia alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 200 people named Georgia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Georgia most popular?
Georgia peaked in 1897, reaching #787 nationally. See the whole 1897 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Georgios to Georgia
The story of Georgia
Georgia O'Keeffe painted flowers very large, on the straightforward logic that nobody looks at a small one, and critics decided almost immediately that the paintings were about female anatomy. The reading was proposed by her husband, who was promoting her work, and it stuck for the rest of the century. She denied it consistently and with visible irritation for about fifty years, pointing out that people were describing their own associations and attributing them to her. Art historians have gone round the question repeatedly since. What is not in dispute is that she outlived every critic who explained her to herself, painted into her nineties, and was still saying it at the end.
Meaning
farmer
The Greek name behind it joins the words for earth and work, and the reading is settled. The state is named after a British king and the country is not named after either.
How the name formed
- Georgios
- Georgia
Related forms: Giorgia · Jorgina · Georgette
Pronouncing Georgia
JOR-juh
Three syllables on paper and two or three in speech depending on the speaker. The Italian form is said JOR-jah.
Nicknames for Georgia
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
- 1884
- Most boys named
- 191923 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #787reached in 1897
- Change vs 1983
- +80.0%9 in 1989, from 5
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.
Georgia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Giorgia in Italian — same name
- Jorgina in Spanish — related form
- Georgette in French — related form
Georgias among us
people named Georgia 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
Georgia 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 and can be given in one word.
- It works in English, Italian and Greek households with only a shift of vowel.
- Georgie and Gia are both available as short forms and are very different in register.
- It is the name of an American state and of a country, so it carries two strong geographical associations at once.
- This spelling goes overwhelmingly to girls but is recorded for boys as well, so a form will occasionally guess wrong.
- A very famous song owns the name for a certain generation of listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Georgias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Georgia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Georgia in 2025?
- Georgia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Georgia with classmates?
- Georgia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with G, all years combined.
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