Georgiana

Where Georgiana comes from

The dictionaries list Georgiana as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek derived from George — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1757
    Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire born
    English socialite, style icon, author, and activist
  2. 1856
    Georgiana Drew born
    American actress
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #254 among girls with 36 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,344.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from George.
Namesakes
  • Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire · English socialite, style icon, author, and activist, 1757–1806
  • Georgiana Drew · American actress, 1856–1893
  • Georgiana Goddard King · art historian, 1871–1939
  • Georgiana Houghton · British artist and spiritualist medium, 1814–1884
  • Georgiana McCrae · English/Australian diarist and painter, 1804–1890

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.