Jørgen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jørgen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Low German Jürgen, from Middle Low German Jurian, from Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios). Cognate with German Jürgen, Swedish Göran, and English George.
- DKDenmark1 in 235(measured from records)
- NONorway≈1 in 617
- GLGreenland≈1 in 40K
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 Jørgen 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235 (inferred from the name graph)
24,956 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joergen in GH Ghana, BJ Benin.
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)
- Low GermanJürgen(measured from records)
- Middle Low GermanJurian(measured from records)
- LatinGeorgius(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΓεώργιοςGeṓrgios(measured from records)
From Low German Jürgen, from Middle Low German Jurian, from Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios). Cognate with German Jürgen, Swedish Göran, and English George.
Sources 2
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jørgen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #20 | 24,956 | 1 in 235 | 25K | Jørgen | 99 |
| NO Norway | #159 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 617 | 41K | Jørgen | 64 |
| BJ Benin | #224 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Joergen | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Jørgen | 27 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Joergen | 3 |
| GL Greenland | #1 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 318 | Jørgen | 13 |
24,956 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jørgen 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.
Danish form of GEORGE (cf. GÖRAN ). Variant: Jørn. Cognate: Swedish: Jörgen .
as a word
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)
- Prince George, Duke of Cumberlandb. 1653DKnot in their usual namehusband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702
- Georg Zoëgab. 1755DKnot in their usual nameDanish archaeologist, numismatist and anthropologist (1755–1809)
- Jørgen Moeb. 1813NONorwegian folklorist, poet and bishop (1813–1882)
- Jørgen Løvlandb. 1848NO10th Prime Minister of Norway (1848–1922)
- Jørgen Pedersen Gramb. 1850DKDanish mathematician (1850–1916)
- Jørgen Juveb. 1906NONorwegian footballer (1906-1983)
- Ib Melchiorb. 1917USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer and filmmaker (1971-2015)
- Jørgen Ingmannb. 1925DKDanish musician (1925–2015)
- Bent Larsenb. 1935DKnot in their usual nameDanish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)
- Jørgen Strand Larsenb. 2000NONorwegian footballer (born 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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 41K | #84 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25K | #23 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2011 | 398 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2012 | 392 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1995 | 387 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2013 | 384 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2014 | 380 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2015 | 374 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1994 | 374 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1996 | 373 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2016 | 360 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1999 | 344 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Jørgen mean, and where does it come from?
- From Low German Jürgen, from Middle Low German Jurian, from Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios). Cognate with German Jürgen, Swedish Göran, and English George. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Jørgen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Jørgen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jørgen.
- Where is Jørgen most common?
- Jørgen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 235 people carrying it.
- Is Jørgen a male or female name?
- Jørgen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Jørgen?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages; Jørn and Jørg are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Jørgen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 24,956 people named Jørgen, about 1 in 235 residents.
- How common is Jørgen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jørgen is the 20th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jørgen?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B8rgenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Jørgen” — the 20th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.