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Geordie

#12,658 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of George

Geordie has been given to 93 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #12,658 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Geordie, 2025

1 in 663,000

Geordie over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geordie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of George

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geordie means

Geordie is a diminutive of George.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Geordie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɔɹ.di/ and /ˈd͡ʒɔː.di/ for Geordie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Geordie → George. The family’s proposed meaning is “farmer, earth worker”, recorded in English with the source elements geōrgós.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include George, Georgia, Georgiana, Georgette and Georgina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Geordie is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɔɹdi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 93 boys were recorded with the name Geordie between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1961; its best national rank was #3,194 in 1961.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Geordie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,658
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geordie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geordie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geordies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geordie was born before 1998 — so the typical Geordie is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
93
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Geordie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+275
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 1961 (8)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
3.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,194
1961

Spellings of Geordie

Geordie is not the most common spelling — George is, with 99.7% against Geordie's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Geordie around the world

Where Geordie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2003–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • France
    1974–1992
    #3,398
    in 1992
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #2,152
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1959–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Geordie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,658
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,194
1961
Peak year
1961
8 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Geordie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Geordie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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