Görgen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Patronymic with weak genitive -en; from short form of Georg

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Görgen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 76th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 54K
  • USUnited States1 in 372Kas Goergen

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Görgen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 named Goergen, est.

Sources
207 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GoergenLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Goergen in US United States, LU Luxembourg, CN China and Gorgen in SS South Sudan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Patronymic with weak genitive -en; from short form of Georg. 1539 bearers.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Görgen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Görgen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 88K—Goergen4
DE Germany—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 34KlistedGörgen82
TR Türkiye—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 54K—Görgen26
US United States—893as Goergen1 in 372K926Goergen207
BR Brazil—6631 in 319K663—2
LU Luxembourg#76≈190 est.≈1 in 3.3K877Goergen28
SS South Sudan—≈150 est.≈1 in 72K—Gorgen1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-3 register; Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Görgen is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Türkiye, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Gorgen

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Górgen, Gorgen

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gorgen

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Gorgen, Gôrgen

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Gorgen

  • Hebrew given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Armenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

    Also written גורגן, Gorgen

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gorgen

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Görgen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Genitiv auf -en; möglicherweise auch Einfluss von nd. Jürgen. Linksrheinische Verbreitung spricht für genitivischen Ursprung.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Renate Görgen, b. 1952Andreas Görgen, b. 1972Thomas Görgen, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Görgen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Görgen come from?
Patronymic with weak genitive -en; from short form of Georg. 1539 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
What does the name Görgen mean?
Recorded meaning: Patronymic with weak genitive -en; from short form of Georg.
In which country does Görgen have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Goergen in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Görgen?
In Brazil, the national register counted 663 people named Görgen, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
How common is Görgen compared with other names?
In Luxembourg, Görgen is the 76th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Görgen” — the 76th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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