Georgia was Georgia O'Keeffe’s first name.
She was born Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, and she used Georgia O'Keeffe professionally throughout her career. The middle name Totto came from her maternal grandfather, George Victor Totto, whose family had Hungarian ancestry. O'Keeffe’s name therefore reflects both her immediate family and part of her European family background.
Her given name is occasionally mistaken for a reference to the U.S. state of Georgia, but it was a personal name rather than a geographic title. Her family lived in Wisconsin, and she was born there in 1887. She later became closely associated with New Mexico, which can make the simple first-name fact easy to overlook.
O'Keeffe signed works and was credited in exhibitions under her married surname after 1924, but the first name Georgia remained constant. The name is now inseparable from her status as a major American modernist painter.