Message: "Geo" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Geo

by Uilos

7/5/2022, 8:19 AM

I saw the name Geo in a newspaper article today: it was used as a baby boy's name and is pronounced as GEH-aw (hard G) where I live.

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- Fiammetta (lady murasaki) +1

7/6/2022, 7:48 AM

Looks like a slangy abbreviation for geography (“I have a geo test tomorrow.”)

- Andrew (AndrewJKD)

7/6/2022, 11:49 AM

This. I know for a fact I said something like that once upon a time.

- Anneza

7/6/2022, 7:07 AM

I'm familiar with Geo as an abbreviation for George, and therefore I'd pronounce it JEE-oh. But I wouldn't; because it wan't used as a nickname. Just a way of fitting more words, but fewer letters, into the printed address on George Smith's business letters. Like Jas for James.

I prefer GEH-o to JEE-o. It sounds pleasantly German - or Finnish I suppose!

- MichaelSword

7/5/2022, 10:50 AM

I'm unfamiliar with it with that pronunciation. Just sounds like something is stuck in my throat or something. I do like Geo gee-oh. I actually have a very guilty pleasure called Geodessa with the nn Geo. I might have gotten it from this site, maybe even one of the posters here.

- writing_wrote_and_written (better_nit_bitter)

7/5/2022, 9:54 AM

I heavily associate it with geography, or maybe as a diminutive of Giovanni. The name itself is not my taste.

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