Gee
Gee was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 81 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gee is “a male given name.”
Northern English surname of debated meaning.
/ˈd͡ʒiː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,762, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1992, the peak
Gee peaked in 1992, when 8 boys were given it, #6,319 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,762 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,319 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,006 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,867 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,295 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,524 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,475 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,606 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,996 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #2,997 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | under 5 | 7 | #795 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 6 | #876 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 6 | #813 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 5 | #963 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Gee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 81 Americans recorded as Gee, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gee, and how old are they?
An estimated 33 Americans named Gee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 929 people named Gee (409 women and girls, 520 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,562 babies since 1880, Gee is the third most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 40 babies recorded by SSA was a Gee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Gee and names like it
- Compare Gee and GeoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGee peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Gee.
- Names starting with GMost given first.