Geo

Where Geo comes from

Geo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #415
    19 babies named Geo — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #841.
  4. 1908
    Geo Bogza born
    Romanian writer, surrealist, dissident
  5. 1932
    Geo Saizescu born
    actor, film director
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Geo Bogza · Romanian writer, surrealist, dissident, 1908–1993
  • Geo Saizescu · actor, film director, 1932–2013
  • Geo Meneses · Mexican singer and producer, born 1974
  • Geo Widengren · Swedish historian and academic, 1907–1996
  • Geo von Lengerke · German engineer, merchant and colonialist, 1827–1882

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.