Georgine
Feminine · “farmer”
The saint behind this name belonged to nobody and was adopted by everybody. England, Georgia, Portugal, Ethiopia, Catalonia, Malta, Greece, Lithuania and Palestine have all claimed him as patron, and there is no reliable evidence about where he was actually from.
How old is the name Georgine?
Georgine first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Georgine alive today was born around 1941, making them about 84 years old. About 1,400 people named Georgine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Georgine most popular?
Georgine peaked in 1881, reaching #830 nationally. See the whole 1881 chart.
Where it comes from
From Georgios to Georgine
The story of Georgine
What is documented is a soldier executed in the eastern empire in the early fourth century and a cult around him that spread fast and far. Everything else — the dragon, the princess, the connection to any particular country — accumulated over the following millennium, and different places attached him to themselves for different reasons. England adopted him late, through the crusades, and he displaced a perfectly good local saint to do it. Georgine is the French feminine, made with the ending French uses for that job, and it reached America in the nineteenth century alongside the Latin-styled Georgia and Georgina.
Meaning
farmer
The Greek compound joins the words for earth and work. It is one of the plainest names in the Greek stock, and the dragon attached to it a thousand years later has nothing to do with it.
How the name formed
- Georgios
- George
- Georgine
Related forms: Georgine · Georgine · Georgina · Giorgina
Pronouncing Georgine
jor-JEEN
Two syllables with the weight at the back. German says gay-or-GEE-nuh with three, and the flower named after the same root keeps that.
Nicknames for Georgine
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
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 194771 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #830reached in 1881
- Change vs 1986
- −37.5%5 in 2010, from 8
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.
Georgine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Georgine in French — same name
- Georgine in German — same name
- Georgina in English — related form
- Giorgina in Italian — related form
Georgines among us
people named Georgine 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
Georgine 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
- It is a standing name in French and German rather than an American construction.
- Gina and Georgie are ready short forms with quite different characters.
- The meaning is plain, concrete and easy to explain.
- Georgina is far commoner in English and will be written instead.
- The stress falls at the back, which English readers may not expect.
- It reads clearly as a name of the nineteenth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Georgines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Georgine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Georgine in 2025?
- Georgine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Georgine with classmates?
- Georgine 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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