Georgianna

Where Georgianna comes from

The dictionaries list Georgianna as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, a spelling variant of Georgiana, confused with George + Anna — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #300
    34 babies named Georgianna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1902
    Georgianna Kathleen Symonette born
    Bahamian suffragist
  4. 1972
    Georgianna Robertson born
    Jamaican model
  5. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,635.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, a spelling variant of Georgiana, confused with George + Anna.
Namesakes
  • Georgianna Robertson · Jamaican model, born 1972
  • Georgianna Kathleen Symonette · Bahamian suffragist, 1902–1965
  • Georgianna Glose · nun who ran a nonprofit anchor in Brooklyn, 1946–2020

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.