Gee

Where Gee comes from

Northern English surname of debated meaning.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gee
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #765
    7 babies named Gee — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1945
    Gee van Enst born
    Dutch rower
  5. 1985
    Gee Atherton born
    English racing cyclist
  6. 1992
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Gee Atherton · English racing cyclist, born 1985
  • Gee van Enst · Dutch rower, born 1945
  • Gee Malik Linton · Jamaican-American film producer and screenwriter, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.