Georgiana

For other uses, see Georgiana (disambiguation).

Georgiana

Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	Greek word Γεώργιος, meaning farmer.
Other names
Variant form(s)	Georgiane, Georgianna, Georgianne, Georgeanna, Georgeanne
Related names	George, Georgia, Georgina, Georgine

Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek and Romanian name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word Γεώργιος (Geórgios), meaning "farmer".^[1] A variant spelling is Georgianna.

List of persons with the given name Georgiana

• Georgiana Astley (1796–1835), English daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, MP
• Georgiana Birțoiu (born 1989), Romanian footballer
• Georgiana Blankenship (1861–1936), American writer
• Georgiana Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield (1822–1905), British courtier and author
• Georgiana Bonser (1898–1979), British physician
• Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), English hospital administrator
• Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), artist, wife and biographer of Edward Burne-Jones
• Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
• Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), English aristocrat, traveler, and author
• Georgiana Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, (1764–1838)
• Lady Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976), English socialite
• Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American actress and comedian, a member of the Barrymore acting family
• Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885), English novelist, philanthropist, and biographer
• Georgiana Harcourt (1807–1886), writer and translator
• Georgiana Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea, (1791–1835)
• Georgiana Hill (1858-1924), British social historian and women's rights activist
• Georgiana Klingle Holmes (1841–1940), American poet and painter
• Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884), British artist and spiritualist medium
• Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), British painter and engraver
• Georgiana Keate (1771 (probably)–1850), English painter
• Georgiana Goddard King (1871–1939), American Hispanist and medievalist
• Georgiana Leicester, Baroness de Tabley (1794–1859), English aristocrat
• Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890), English-Australian painter and diarist
• Georgiana Molloy (1805–1843), English-Australian botanical collector
• Georgiana Hare-Naylor (1755–1806), English painter and art patron
• Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock (c.1837–1923), socialite and enthusiast for Nelson
• Georgiana Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1781–1853), British aristocrat and patron of the arts
• Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1809–1884)
• Georgiana Simpson (1865–1944), African-American philologist
• Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933), British educator and campaigner
• Georgiana Somerset, Marchioness of Worcester (1792–1821)
• Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer (1737–1814), English philanthropist
• Georgiana Young (1924–2007), American actress
• Georgiana Zornlin (1800–1881), English artist and writer

Fictional characters

• Georgiana Darcy, younger sister of one of the main characters in Pride and Prejudice
• Georgiana Pirrip, the mother of Pip in Charles Dickens‘s "Great Expectations"
• Georgiana, wife of Aylmer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
• Georgiana Reed, cousin of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë's novel of the same name.

Dramatic works

• Georgiana (2019), an opera pasticcio based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) commissioned by the Buxton Festival.

Territories

• Georgiana, a colony proposed by Phineas Lyman for establishment in the Natchez district of British West Florida.

List of persons with the given name Georgianna

• Georgianna Bell, a pen name of the author Anne Rundle
• Georgianna Bishop (1878–1971), American golfer
• Georgianna Hiliadaki, Greek chef
• Georgianna Hopley (1858–1944), better known as Georgia Hopley, American journalist and temperance advocate
• Georgianna Lincoln (born 1943), American politician and businesswoman
• Georgianna Robertson (born 1972), Jamaican model and actress
• Georgianna Stout (born 1967), American graphic designer
• Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (1902–1965), Bahamian suffragist

See also

• Georgina

References

1. Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Georgiana