What was Georgia O'Keeffe's middle name?

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Georgia O'Keeffe's middle name was Totto.

She was born Georgia Totto O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on November 15, 1887. The name came from her mother, Ida Totto O'Keeffe, whose family had Hungarian and Dutch ancestry. O'Keeffe generally used the shorter public name Georgia O'Keeffe throughout her artistic career.

Her full name is useful for distinguishing her from other artists named Georgia and for identifying biographical records. The unusual middle name is sometimes misspelled as “Toto,” but the documented spelling is “Totto,” with two t's at the end.

O'Keeffe became one of the best-known American modernists, yet her name was only one part of a career shaped by teachers, photographers, landscapes, flowers, bones, and architectural forms. Her marriage to photographer Alfred Stieglitz also placed her name prominently in art history.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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