Georgiana

Girl · Greek, through Latin

Georgiana

Say it: jor-jee-AH-nuh

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Meaning

A Latinized feminine of George, from Greek georgos 'farmer'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

A Georgian-era aristocratic name in the age of the Hanoverian Georges.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1880s

In the United States

01020304018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1880per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 9,365 babies given this name since 1880
  • At its height in 1880, about 1 in 2,500 girls
  • 99 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
  2. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914

Used by

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Famous bearers

  • Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

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Where this comes from

  • Royal and noble genealogies
  • Parish baptism registers
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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