Boy · Greek
Georgios
Say it: YOR-yee-os
Meaning
From Greek georgos 'farmer, earth-worker'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Long the most common boys' name in Greece.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 952 babies given this name since 1970
- At its height in 1981, about 1 in 59,700 boys
- 19 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Giorgos, Giorgis
| English | George |
|---|---|
| Romanian | Gheorghe |
| Hungarian | György |
Famous bearers
- Saint George, early Christian martyr
- Giorgos Seferis, Nobel Prize-winning poet
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries 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.
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