Georgy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin genitive patronymic from Georg; 90 bearers, mainly in central Thuringia
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from георгий
Georgy is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the most common given name.
- BGBulgaria1 in 43as Георги(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 85as Gheorghe
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 499as Ѓорѓи
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 Georgy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #507 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
631,924 named George, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bulgaria, as Георги
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Георгий in RU Russia, Georgi in US United States, Георгій in UA Ukraine and Георги in BG Bulgaria.
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)Latin genitive patronymic from Georg; 90 bearers, mainly in central Thuringia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Georgy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 631,924as George | 1 in 526 | 630K | Georgi | 220 |
| RU Russia | #85 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 621 | register #42 | Георгий | 201 |
| BG Bulgaria | #1 | 160,754as Георги | 1 in 43 | 161K | Георги | 200 |
| UA Ukraine | #102 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 728 | listed | Георгій | 67 |
| MD Moldova | #257 | 39,504as Gheorghe | 1 in 85 | 40K | Georgij | 13 |
| MK North Macedonia | #205 | 4,262as Ѓорѓи | 1 in 499 | 4.3K | Ѓорѓи | 16 |
631,924 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling george. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSI — most common given names (population); e-services.md — living population register; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Saint Georgeb. 275TRnot in their usual nameChristian saint and martyr (died 303)
- Georgi Plekhanovb. 1856RURussian philosopher (1856–1918)
- Georgy Lvovb. 1861DERussian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)
- George Gurdjieffb. 1866AMnot in their usual namephilosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
- George Gaponb. 1870UAnot in their usual nameRussian priest (1870-1906)
- Georgi Dimitrovb. 1882BGBulgarian politician (1882–1949)
- Georgy Zhukovb. 1896RUMarshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1974)
- Georgy Malenkovb. 1902RUSoviet politician (1902–1988)
- Georgy Sviridovb. 1915RUSoviet and Russian composer (1915—1998)
- Giorgi Kvirikashvilib. 1967GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian politician
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)58 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 445 | #20,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 58 | #20,524 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 26 | #1,782 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Georgy mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin genitive patronymic from Georg; 90 bearers, mainly in central Thuringia. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- What are other forms of the name Georgy?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Georgy?
- It depends on the language: in Russian /ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /çeorxi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Georgy a male or female name?
- Georgy is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE), Finland (DVV) and Estonia (Statistics Estonia).
- In which country does Georgy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 632 thousand people named George, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Georgy most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Georgy itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Bulgaria's: the national register counts about 1 in 43 people named Георги.
- How common is the name Georgy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 631,924 people named George in 2020, about 1 in 526 residents.
- How common is Georgy compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Georgy is the most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/georgyThe 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, “Georgy” — the most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.