How Many People Are Named Georgia?

82,572

people named Georgia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 4,139 people in the US has this name

Based on 167,019 babies named Georgia in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#643

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#337

See the top 100

Peak Year

2025

2,619 births

Trend

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Rising (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English, Greek
Pronunciation: JAWR-jə (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Latinate feminine form of GEORGE. This is the name of an American state, which was named after the British king George II. A famous bearer was the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Georgia in English. Counting Georgia and these spellings together, about 85,399 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

GerganaĐurađaĐurđaJiřinaGeorginaGeorgeannaGeorgeneGeorgianaJorjaGeorgetteGeorgineGyörgyiGiorgiaGeorgetaDjuradja

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Georgia (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Georgia alive today is about 43 years old, and 45% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 74 in 2025.

Under 30 36,750
44.5%
30 to 59 10,779
13.1%
60 and over 35,044
42.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Georgia first appears in the records in 1880, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 2,619 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Georgia never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #81, in 1882, and it was in the top 100 in 33 years between 1880 and 2025. In 2025 it ranked #99.

Girls
Rank in 2025#99
Best rank#81 (1882)
Years in the top 10033 (1880 to 2025)
Rank in its biggest decade#114 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Georgia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Georgia were born in Texas than in any other state: about 6,519 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Georgia was given 2.4 times as often in Mississippi, 2 times in Arkansas and 1.9 times in Tennessee.

Texas 6,519
California 6,488
New York 3,928
Illinois 3,857
Georgia 3,698
Ohio 3,196
North Carolina 3,122
Pennsylvania 2,849
Tennessee 2,672
Mississippi 2,571
Florida 2,428
Alabama 2,353
Missouri 2,331
Michigan 2,220
Virginia 2,005
Kentucky 1,950
Louisiana 1,937
Indiana 1,867
South Carolina 1,833
Washington 1,806
Arkansas 1,549
Massachusetts 1,499
Oklahoma 1,449
Minnesota 1,370
New Jersey 1,261
Wisconsin 1,261
Colorado 1,227
Maryland 1,168
Oregon 1,026
Iowa 967
Utah 933
Kansas 921
Arizona 890
West Virginia 706
Connecticut 686
Nebraska 592
New Mexico 515
Idaho 404
Montana 305
District of Columbia 256
Maine 235
Nevada 208
South Dakota 206
North Dakota 167
New Hampshire 163
Wyoming 116
Rhode Island 86
Vermont 34
Hawaii 28
Delaware 16
Alaska 5

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