Gee

Last seen for girls in 1991 at #11,509 · Last seen for boys in 1997 at #9,265
Given to boys 79.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
1885 · 7 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
64
since 1880

Gee over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201885peak #5,243, 1948peak #765, 1885girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1885#7657
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1882#8376
1881#7816
1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Gee was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1884, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Gee
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
  • Biggest jump: 128 spots in 1881 (#909#781)
  • Biggest drop: 56 spots in 1882 (#781#837)
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1885 at #765 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1880–1882
Share of babies · boys
1 in 15,400
  • Highest: 1 in 15,400 boys born in 1885 were named Gee (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 377,028 boys born in 1997 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1880s
  • 37.5% of all boys named Gee (24) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1992
  • Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s24#765 (1885)#823
1890s0
1900s0
1910s5#2,821 (1913)#2,821
1920s16#3,815 (1920)#4,120
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
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1980s6#6,941 (1989)#6,941
1990s13#6,128 (1992)#7,697

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Gee in 1885

boys
#765
7 births · 1 in 15,400 boys

Top boys' names in 1885

  1. #1John8,756
  2. #2William8,044
  3. #3James5,175
  4. #4George4,674
  5. #5Charles4,599
  6. #6Frank3,067
  7. #7Joseph2,540
  8. #8Henry2,406
  9. #9Robert2,322
  10. #10Thomas2,266
  11. #765Gee7
More about 1885

boys

107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 15,400 of them was named Gee, which outranked 30.3% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Gee
  1. #700Wayman8
  2. #700Webb8
  3. #700Wilton8
  4. #765Gee7
  5. #765Adolf7
  6. #765Alois7
  7. #765Bailey7
  8. #836Ab6
  9. #836Abel6
  10. #836Algie6

Tied with 70 names at #765; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1884
Risers
  1. 426Bryant#848#422
  2. 424Butler#971#547
  3. 424Cyril#971#547
  4. 409Gerhard#848#439
  5. 394Rowland#971#577
Fallers
  1. 520Clarance#416#936
  2. 416Oswald#520#936
  3. 389Doctor#547#936
  4. 366Dexter#570#936
  5. 366Gustaf#570#936

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1885