Georgina

Where Georgina comes from

From George + -ina, feminine form of George. Piecewise doublet of Georgine.
— Wiktionary's entry for Georgina
  • Ancient Greek
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1957
    Georgina Beyer born
    New Zealand politician; first transgender mayor
  3. 1974
    Peak, #593
    267 babies named Georgina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Georgina Rodríguez born
    Argentine-Spanish model
  5. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,752.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Georgina Rodríguez · Argentine-Spanish model, born 1994
  • Georgina Beyer · New Zealand politician; first transgender mayor, 1957–2023
  • Georgina Campbell · English actress, born 1992
  • Georgina Rizk · Lebanese model, socialite and beauty queen, born 1953
  • Georgina Leonidas · British actress, born 1990

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.