Georgia O'Keeffe was born with the surname O'Keeffe.
Her full birth name was Georgia Totto O'Keeffe. The middle name Totto came from her maternal grandfather, George Victor Totto. Unlike many artists whose public names changed through marriage, O'Keeffe continued to use her birth surname throughout her career.
She married photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz in 1924, but she did not become professionally known as Georgia Stieglitz. Stieglitz supported and exhibited her work, yet O'Keeffe maintained a distinct artistic identity.
The spelling includes an apostrophe and a capital K, a detail sometimes lost in simplified references. Her name is now strongly associated with enlarged flowers, New Mexico landscapes, bones, and abstract forms, although her career covered many more subjects and styles.