Georgette

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒɔɹˈdʒɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Georgette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 10K
  • SESweden1 in 42K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

10,303 people, 2020

Sources
352 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Feminine of Georges, from Greek georgos, 'farmer'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

How Georgette is read(measured from records)

Georgette is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English50%

    A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French36%

    Feminine of Georges, from Greek georgos, 'farmer'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Au XVIII e siècle, une georgette était une tabatière. On emploie encore le mot dans le tissu de soie appelé « crêpe georgette ». Au sens de tabatière ou de crêpe, le mot dérive du prénom Georgette, féminin de Georges.

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

    Du grec geōrgos, « qui travaille la terre ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Dérivé féminin de Georges, du grec *geôrgos*.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Georgette counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Georgette is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,3031 in 32K10KGeorgette352
NL Netherlands—1,7141 in 10K1.7KGeorgette39
SE Sweden—2421 in 42K242Georgette14
BR Brazil—1231 in 1.7M123—2
ES Spain—791 in 633K79Georgette32
CR Costa Rica—221 in 232K22——
DK Denmark—201 in 293K20Georgette9
JM Jamaica#159———Georgette13

10,303 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Georgette is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written জর্জেট

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Georgette is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • French feminine diminutive of Georges, the French form of George, now also used in the English-speaking world. The crépe material so called derives its name from that of an early 20th-century French dressmaker, Mme Georgette de la Plante.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

185019001950Georgette Agutte, b. 1867Georgette Leblanc, b. 1869Georgette Heyer, b. 1902Annabella, b. 1907Georgette Rejewski, b. 1910Simone Renant, b. 1911Lucette Destouches, b. 1912Géori Boué, b. 1918Claudine Longet, b. 1942Denise Gordy, b. 1949

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Georgette,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 72 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Georgette
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202010K#2,414
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.7K#925
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—584#2,902
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—242#4,580
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020175—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022123—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—122#35,645
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—79#19,021
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—75#8,823
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—58#45,535
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202538—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—24#10,474

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Georgette come from?
Feminine of Georges, from Greek georgos, 'farmer'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
Is Georgette a male or female name?
Georgette is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Georgette?
In the etymology graph, Gina, Georgina and Jeanna are forms of the same name in other languages; Gigi is a recorded short or pet form.
What does the name Georgette mean?
In English, A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish.
In which country does Georgette have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Georgette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled georgette.
Where is Georgette most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Georgette is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Georgette?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,303 people named Georgette in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Georgette compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Georgette is the 159th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Georgette?
A machine transcription gives /dʒɔɹˈdʒɛt/ (IPA) for English.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Georgette” — the 159th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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