Georgia

Where Georgia comes from

Latinate feminine form of George, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios, “farmer”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Georgia
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #84 among girls — 259 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #81
    320 babies named Georgia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1948
    Georgia Engel born
    American actress
  4. 1999
    Georgia Stanway born
    English association football player
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #99 after sinking to #722 in 1986.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Georgia Stanway · English association football player, born 1999
  • Georgia Engel · American actress, 1948–2019
  • Georgia Hale · American silent film actress, 1905–1985
  • Georgia Tennant · English actress, born 1984
  • Georgia Taylor-Brown · British triathlete, born 1994

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.