Gee — boys' name
64 babies named Gee in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Gee was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Gee in 1992 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Gee
The Social Security Administration has registered 64 babies named Gee between 1880 and 1997, spanning 118 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Gee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 1948.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Gee performed strongest in the 1880s, accumulating 24 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Gee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Gee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 64 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Gee at a glance
Last recorded 1997Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Gee popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–1880
- Peak year (1992)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 118 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1997.
64 total births across 118 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1992 with 8 births in a single year.
Gee popularity over time — girls
17 total births recorded since 1948 (Gee as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Gee accounts for 21% of total recorded use across both genders.
Gee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1880s
- 24 births that decade — 38% of Gee's all-time total
Gee decade highlights
- Peak decade 24 births
- Runner-up 16 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1880s was Gee's strongest decade
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.