Georg
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek Georgios, from geōrgos 'earth-worker, farmer'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡeːɔrk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Georg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 326(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 461
- AMArmenia≈1 in 934as Gevorg
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 Georg 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 326 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Геворг in RU Russia, CN China and Gevorg in AM Armenia.
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)
from Greek Georgios, from geōrgos 'earth-worker, farmer'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Georg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #48 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 326 | — | Georg | 267 |
| AT Austria | #55 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | 7.7K | Georg | 178 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,650 | 1 in 613 | 17K | Georg | 65 |
| RU Russia | #404 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | #638 | Геворг | 141 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Геворг | 16 |
| AM Armenia | #149 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 934 | 220 | Gevorg | 93 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,558 | 1 in 2.1K | 8.7K | Georg | 67 |
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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023. 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)
Georg is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Greek geōrgos 'farmer, tiller of the earth'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Patronymic from George/Georgius; shows genitive and Latinized variants in -i/-es/-ius.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymic from the given name Georg; model of Latin genitive -i in surnames.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, from a German vernacular form of the Greek personal name Georgios (see George).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Latinisierung/morphologische Transposition zu griech. Georgios < georgós 'Bauer'; zeigt die Variantenbildung Georg-, Georgi-, George-, Georges-, Georgius. Bearer counts: Georg 2118, Georgi 2665, George 1622, Georges 251, Georgius 121.
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)
- Georg Simon Ohmb. 1789DEGerman physicist and mathematician
- Leopold I of Belgiumb. 1790BEnot in their usual nameGerman prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
- Bernhard Riemannb. 1826DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematician (1826–1866)
- Leo von Caprivib. 1831DEnot in their usual nameGerman Chancellor and Prussian General of the Infantry and Prime Minister (1831-1899)
- Richard Straussb. 1864DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
- Haakon VII of Norwayb. 1872NOnot in their usual nameKing of Norway from 1905 to 1957 (1872–1957)
- Karl Manne Georg Siegbahnb. 1886SESwedish physicist (1886-1978)
- Georg von Békésyb. 1899HUHungarian physicist (1899–1972)
- Kurt Georg Kiesingerb. 1904DEChancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)
- Lennart Merib. 1929EEnot in their usual nameEstonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17K | #259 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8.7K | #450 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 7.7K | #122 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 2.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.8K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 104 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 59 | #122 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Georg mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek Georgios, from geōrgos 'earth-worker, farmer' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Georg?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages; Jörg is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Georg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 246 thousand people named Georg in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled georg.
- How do you pronounce Georg?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡeːɔrk/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Georg a male or female name?
- Georg 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.
- How common is the name Georg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16,650 people named Georg, about 1 in 613 residents.
- How common is Georg compared with other names?
- In Germany, Georg is the 48th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Georg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/georgThe 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, “Georg” — the 48th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.