Georgia is the feminie form of the Greek name Georgios, which was derived from the Greek word ‘georgos’ meaning ‘farmer, earthworker’. It consists of the words ‘ge’ meaning ‘earth’ and ‘ergon’ meaning ‘work’.
Georgia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Georgia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Georgia ranks 201. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 9 were named Georgia. In the entire USA, approximately 139,399 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Georgia. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Georgia is the feminie form of the Greek name Georgios, which was derived from the Greek word ‘georgos’ meaning ‘farmer, earthworker’. It consists of the words ‘ge’ meaning ‘earth’ and ‘ergon’ meaning ‘work’.
Georgia is the title of... multiple films and songs, for example a 2010 song by CeeLo Green.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Georgia is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Georgia for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Georgia is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Georgia is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #80 Georgia has never been more popular than back in 1882.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Georgia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,751 babies were named Georgia in the USA in 2022, ranking it #155 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1990, when it was only ranked #686 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 292 girls were named Georgia.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Georgia is one of them. However, Georgia is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Mississippi seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,549 women called Georgia who live here are 0,288% of all female residents and push their name up to #75, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Mississippi.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Georgia has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Georgia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Georgia, you can simply say:
Goat
Elephant
Orange
Rocket
Goat
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Georgia
Georgia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
E
O
R
G
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
E
O
R
G
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Georgia sounds like this:
