Meaning not yet researched.
Georgia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,619 in 2025. Its best rank was #81 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #81 in 1882; #99 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Georgia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#99 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #81.
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Georgia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,619 girls in 2025. Peak: #81 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 2,619 (2025).
In 2025, 2,619 US girls were named Georgia, making it the 99th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #110 in 2024. That is 152 more than the 2,467 girls named Georgia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #81, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,619, in 2025. For comparison, it was #229 in 2015 and #152 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Georgia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 259 babies with the name. In all, 167,019 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 23,403 babies named Georgia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18,014 US girls were named Georgia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,619. In 2025 that was about 1 in 614 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Georgia ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #36 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 26 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Georgina (17,591 babies since 1880), Georgie (14,444 babies since 1880), Georgiana (9,992 babies since 1880) and Jorja (2,943 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Georgio, Giorgia and Giorgi are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Georgie.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Georgio (751), Giorgia (535), Giorgi (117), Georgiy (58), Jorga (55), Geargia (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Georgia is listed as a nickname for Georgiana.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 79 | #36 | #177 |
| Idaho | 35 | #43 | #333 |
| Missouri | 81 | #51 | #157 |
| Arkansas | 41 | #53 | #205 |
| Kentucky | 56 | #65 | #247 |
| Mississippi | 29 | #67 | #144 |
| Alabama | 55 | #68 | #152 |
| Tennessee | 96 | #68 | #169 |
| Nebraska | 26 | #69 | #114 |
| Washington | 82 | #69 | #119 |
| New Hampshire | 16 | #71 | #173 |
| South Carolina | 53 | #73 | #202 |
| North Carolina | 119 | #75 | #165 |
| Indiana | 74 | #78 | #171 |
| Oklahoma | 42 | #78 | #198 |
| Illinois | 102 | #81 | #259 |
| Ohio | 112 | #82 | #199 |
| Montana | 11 | #83 | — |
| Oregon | 37 | #83 | #168 |
| Michigan | 87 | #83 | #276 |
| Wisconsin | 53 | #87 | #226 |
| Georgia | 91 | #92 | #156 |
| Virginia | 77 | #92 | #211 |
| Colorado | 52 | #98 | #205 |
| Kansas | 32 | #98 | #197 |
| Connecticut | 28 | #100 | #220 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #113 | #229 |
| Minnesota | 45 | #117 | #200 |
| Iowa | 27 | #121 | #165 |
| Texas | 254 | #125 | #268 |
| Maryland | 36 | #127 | #261 |
| Massachusetts | 42 | #129 | #191 |
| Maine | 8 | #137 | — |
| Arizona | 47 | #137 | #295 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #142 | #175 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #145 | — |
| Florida | 111 | #161 | #281 |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | #168 | #365 |
| New York | 97 | #169 | #262 |
| Nevada | 15 | #170 | #334 |
| California | 180 | #182 | #348 |
| New Jersey | 39 | #213 | #332 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #334 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,619 | #99 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,467 | #110 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,172 | #128 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,754 | #163 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,744 | #167 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,614 | #177 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,481 | #205 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,424 | #221 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,321 | #242 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,418 | #226 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,442 | #229 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,333 | #242 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,265 | #251 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,068 | #297 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,048 | #305 | — | — |
| 2010 | 989 | #324 | — | — |
| 2009 | 982 | #335 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,073 | #312 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,143 | #295 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,215 | #274 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,007 | #319 | — | — |
| 2004 | 854 | #366 | — | — |
| 2003 | 810 | #374 | — | — |
| 2002 | 782 | #379 | — | — |
| 2001 | 743 | #393 | — | — |
| 2000 | 929 | #334 | — | — |
| 1999 | 858 | #350 | — | — |
| 1998 | 619 | #428 | — | — |
| 1997 | 449 | #529 | — | — |
| 1996 | 394 | #582 | — | — |
| 1995 | 367 | #607 | — | — |
| 1994 | 342 | #638 | — | — |
| 1993 | 365 | #621 | — | — |
| 1992 | 382 | #597 | — | — |
| 1991 | 319 | #675 | — | — |
| 1990 | 293 | #716 | — | — |
| 1989 | 276 | #718 | 9 | #5,314 |
| 1988 | 303 | #647 | — | — |
| 1987 | 262 | #698 | — | — |
| 1986 | 246 | #724 | — | — |
| 1985 | 271 | #669 | — | — |
| 1984 | 297 | #602 | — | — |
| 1983 | 303 | #588 | 5 | #6,620 |
| 1982 | 284 | #634 | 5 | #6,697 |
| 1981 | 307 | #600 | — | — |
| 1980 | 332 | #563 | — | — |
| 1979 | 366 | #524 | — | — |
| 1978 | 349 | #527 | — | — |
| 1977 | 367 | #505 | 6 | #5,371 |
| 1976 | 342 | #520 | — | — |
| 1975 | 351 | #510 | — | — |
| 1974 | 363 | #486 | — | — |
| 1973 | 382 | #474 | — | — |
| 1972 | 429 | #442 | — | — |
| 1971 | 472 | #443 | — | — |
| 1970 | 508 | #434 | — | — |
| 1969 | 565 | #402 | — | — |
| 1968 | 581 | #380 | — | — |
| 1967 | 672 | #344 | — | — |
| 1966 | 657 | #352 | — | — |
| 1965 | 719 | #338 | — | — |
| 1964 | 871 | #316 | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1963 | 907 | #307 | 5 | #4,271 |
| 1962 | 909 | #307 | 6 | #3,785 |
| 1961 | 1,031 | #290 | — | — |
| 1960 | 987 | #293 | 5 | #4,252 |
| 1959 | 1,013 | #280 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,112 | #263 | 10 | #2,707 |
| 1957 | 1,251 | #239 | 6 | #3,713 |
| 1956 | 1,306 | #229 | 8 | #3,051 |
| 1955 | 1,480 | #210 | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1954 | 1,534 | #200 | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1953 | 1,743 | #181 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,749 | #176 | 7 | #3,197 |
| 1951 | 1,931 | #162 | 10 | #2,552 |
| 1950 | 1,940 | #152 | 6 | #3,457 |
| 1949 | 2,204 | #141 | 13 | #2,159 |
| 1948 | 2,312 | #130 | 12 | #2,257 |
| 1947 | 2,475 | #129 | 6 | #3,497 |
| 1946 | 2,309 | #123 | 11 | #2,328 |
| 1945 | 2,318 | #116 | 9 | #2,461 |
| 1944 | 2,359 | #114 | 13 | #2,029 |
| 1943 | 2,378 | #119 | 13 | #2,107 |
| 1942 | 2,213 | #123 | 16 | #1,825 |
| 1941 | 2,051 | #127 | 17 | #1,715 |
| 1940 | 1,774 | #138 | 11 | #2,229 |
| 1939 | 1,834 | #131 | 10 | #2,339 |
| 1938 | 1,762 | #138 | 14 | #1,924 |
| 1937 | 1,812 | #132 | 17 | #1,713 |
| 1936 | 1,823 | #128 | 13 | #1,992 |
| 1935 | 1,871 | #123 | 12 | #2,172 |
| 1934 | 1,918 | #122 | 19 | #1,632 |
| 1933 | 1,814 | #126 | 12 | #2,139 |
| 1932 | 2,064 | #118 | 19 | #1,678 |
| 1931 | 1,960 | #120 | 13 | #2,142 |
| 1930 | 2,156 | #117 | 16 | #1,917 |
| 1929 | 2,127 | #115 | 19 | #1,752 |
| 1928 | 2,289 | #115 | 28 | #1,398 |
| 1927 | 2,254 | #120 | 7 | #3,586 |
| 1926 | 2,348 | #116 | 18 | #1,858 |
| 1925 | 2,411 | #112 | 20 | #1,758 |
| 1924 | 2,397 | #113 | 19 | #1,863 |
| 1923 | 2,372 | #112 | 20 | #1,779 |
| 1922 | 2,363 | #114 | 14 | #2,280 |
| 1921 | 2,313 | #117 | 10 | #2,874 |
| 1920 | 2,356 | #113 | 18 | #1,913 |
| 1919 | 2,284 | #106 | 23 | #1,546 |
| 1918 | 2,344 | #107 | 17 | #1,935 |
| 1917 | 2,163 | #105 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 1916 | 1,992 | #108 | 11 | #2,442 |
| 1915 | 1,853 | #111 | 11 | #2,364 |
| 1914 | 1,492 | #107 | 14 | #1,721 |
| 1913 | 1,382 | #100 | 9 | #1,996 |
| 1912 | 1,196 | #101 | 8 | #1,944 |
| 1911 | 957 | #96 | 7 | #1,444 |
| 1910 | 1,010 | #91 | — | — |
| 1909 | 813 | #97 | 6 | #1,349 |
| 1908 | 768 | #97 | — | — |
| 1907 | 787 | #92 | 7 | #1,137 |
| 1906 | 706 | #96 | 7 | #1,053 |
| 1905 | 722 | #94 | — | — |
| 1904 | 736 | #89 | 5 | #1,278 |
| 1903 | 632 | #94 | — | — |
| 1902 | 664 | #91 | — | — |
| 1901 | 549 | #96 | — | — |
| 1900 | 765 | #87 | 7 | #1,092 |
| 1899 | 553 | #99 | — | — |
| 1898 | 654 | #92 | 8 | #834 |
| 1897 | 529 | #101 | 8 | #817 |
| 1896 | 562 | #93 | — | — |
| 1895 | 562 | #94 | 5 | #1,149 |
| 1894 | 535 | #94 | — | — |
| 1893 | 541 | #87 | 5 | #1,100 |
| 1892 | 552 | #87 | 5 | #1,135 |
| 1891 | 444 | #96 | — | — |
| 1890 | 513 | #83 | — | — |
| 1889 | 445 | #91 | — | — |
| 1888 | 477 | #84 | 5 | #1,091 |
| 1887 | 351 | #92 | — | — |
| 1886 | 395 | #86 | — | — |
| 1885 | 371 | #84 | — | — |
| 1884 | 341 | #90 | 5 | #1,032 |
| 1883 | 325 | #84 | — | — |
| 1882 | 320 | #81 | — | — |
| 1881 | 256 | #89 | — | — |
| 1880 | 259 | #84 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).