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Boy · Ancient Greek
George
Say it: JORJ
Meaning
Greek geōrgos, 'farmer, earth-worker'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in the East from early times and in England after the Hanoverian kings from 1714.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 1,483,277 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1880, about 1 in 22 boys
- 2,753 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Early ChristianGreekEnglishAmericanFrenchSpanishItalianPortugueseGermanPolishRussianHungarian
The family of the name
Other spellings: Georg
| French | Georges |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Jorge |
| Italian | Giorgio |
| Portuguese | Jorge |
| German | Georg |
| Polish | Jerzy |
| Russian | Georgiy |
| Hungarian | György |
Famous bearers
- Saint George, soldier martyr and patron of England
- George Washington, US president
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.