Geo

Last seen for girls in 1922 at #5,009 · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
1889 · 19 births
Debut · boys
16 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,308
since 1880

Geo over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Geo has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201886peak #415, 1889boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#3,03640
2024—#2,71548
2023—#2,54152
2022—#2,46856
2021—#2,65248
2020—#4,02025
2019—#3,63630
2018—#4,61021
2017—#5,29717
2016—#4,32723
2015—#4,89019
2014—#4,13824
2013—#4,46321
2012—#5,72015
2011—#4,35622
2010—#5,25117
2009—#6,43613
2008—#9,0198
2007—#8,9158
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2003—#9,5816
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2001—#9,2436
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1999—#9,9125
1998—#9,6315
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1936—#3,5495
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1931—#3,3906
1930—#2,60910
1929—#2,7669
1928—#2,38712
1927—#3,1518
1926—#1,66121
1925—#1,80619
1924—#2,47312
1923—#1,75320
1922#5,0095#1,95217
1921—#1,98017
1920—#1,45726
1919—#1,40826
1918#4,2916#1,40426
1917—#1,36226
1916—#1,59420
1915#4,2745#1,15931
1914—#1,26022
1913—#1,07522
1912—#97022
1911—#1,03811
1910—#85913
1909—#75614
1908—#82511
1907—#9309
1906—#47222
1905—#66613
1904—#58715
1903—#61913
1902—#8628
1901—#68310
1900—#78511
1899—#7149
1898—#66311
1897—#7259
1896—#59213
1895—#68510
1894—#9546
1893—#53813
1892—#54714
1891—#8416
1890—#51114
1889—#41519
1888—#48416
1887—#46114
1886—#45116
1885—#7657
1884—#8486
1883—#7207
1882—#41619
1881—#5959
1880—#44216
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Geo was already there! It came in at #442, and was given to 16 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1932–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Geo is popular in 1886

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Geo
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 321 spots since 2024 (#2,715 → #3,036)
  • 984 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #3,036)
  • 1,854 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #3,036)
  • Biggest jump: 314 spots in 1886 (#765 → #451)
  • Biggest drop: 458 spots in 1907 (#472 → #930)
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1889 at #415 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 32 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1880–1910
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,820
  • Highest: 1 in 5,820 boys born in 1889 were named Geo (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 20.6% of all boys named Geo (269) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s129#415 (1889)#560
1890s105#511 (1890)#677
1900s126#472 (1906)#719
1910s219#859 (1910)#1,213
1920s161#1,457 (1920)#2,139
1930s21#2,609 (1930)#3,183
1940s0——
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1980s12#5,751 (1988)#6,033
1990s16#7,422 (1992)#8,988
2000s41#6,436 (2009)#8,639
2010s209#3,636 (2019)#4,669
2020s269#2,468 (2022)#2,905

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Geo in 1886

boys
#451
16 births · 1 in 6,924 boys

Top boys' names in 1886

  1. #1John9,026
  2. #2William8,252
  3. #3James5,355
  4. #4George4,671
  5. #5Charles4,533
  6. #6Frank3,127
  7. #7Joseph2,594
  8. #8Robert2,443
  9. #9Henry2,404
  10. #10Thomas2,337
  11. #451Geo16
More about 1886

boys

110,783 boys got a published name in 1886; 1 in 6,924 of them was named Geo, which outranked 59.4% of the 1,110 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Geo
  1. #431Thornton17
  2. #431Webster17
  3. #431Wilbert17
  4. #451Geo16
  5. #451Abel16
  6. #451Addison16
  7. #451Alphonse16
  8. #470Alonza15
  9. #470Angus15
  10. #470Anna15

Tied with 18 names at #451; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1885
Risers
  1. ↑ 505Thornton#936 → #431
  2. ↑ 485Oswald#936 → #451
  3. ↑ 445Evans#936 → #491
  4. ↑ 396Grace#936 → #540
  5. ↑ 385Abel#836 → #451
Fallers
  1. ↓ 497Adelbert#462 → #959
  2. ↓ 438Carey#521 → #959
  3. ↓ 412Santiago#547 → #959
  4. ↓ 382Brooks#577 → #959
  5. ↓ 355Alma#604 → #959

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1886 →