Names of Georgia GE

Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) records გიორგი as the commonest given name in Georgia and ბერიძე as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Georgia from the rest of the world are Nino, Giorgi and Irakli.

Written in Georgian.

Population
4M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
24K
ABuilt from 2 official registers, 23,602 name forms in our corpus, 2 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Georgia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Georgia included.

How names work in Georgia

Names in Georgia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Georgia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) — 42,024 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1გიორგი193K—
2ნინო116K—
3მარიამ72K—
4დავით68K—
5ანა50K—
6მარიამი49K—
7თამარ48K—
8ალექსანდრე47K—
9მაია47K—
10ლუკა46K—
11ნანა42K—
12ნიკოლოზ40K—
13ელენე40K—
14ნათია38K—
15ირაკლი36K—
16მანანა32K—
17ქეთევან32K—
18საბა30K—
19ზურაბ29K—
20თამარი29K—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API)Across all recordsგიორგი: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. გიორგიnot rankedნინო: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ნინოnot rankedმარიამ: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. მარიამnot rankedდავით: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. დავითnot rankedანა: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. ანაnot rankedმარიამი: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. მარიამიnot rankedთამარ: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. თამარnot rankedალექსანდრე: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. ალექსანდრეnot rankedმაია: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. მაიაnot rankedლუკა: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. ლუკაnot rankedნანა: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. ნანაnot rankedნიკოლოზ: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. ნიკოლოზnot rankedელენე: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. ელენეnot rankedნათია: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. ნათიაnot rankedირაკლი: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. ირაკლიnot rankedმანანა: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. მანანაnot rankedქეთევან: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. ქეთევანnot rankedსაბა: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. საბაnot rankedზურაბ: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. ზურაბnot rankedთამარი: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. თამარიnot rankedლევან: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. ლევანnot rankedსალომე: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. სალომეnot rankedმარინე: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. მარინეnot rankedდავითი: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. დავითიnot rankedლაშა: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. ლაშაnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) on the left; every record we hold for Georgia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Georgia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Georgia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

NinoGiorgiIrakliZurabVakhtangMikheilGvantsaGigaLevanRevazZviadTornikeKakhaTinatinKetevanNikaEkaBekaRusudanGela
Sized by how much of the difference between Georgia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Over time

მარიამიმართაელენელილეევა202020251,660
PSDA Georgia — popular given names 2020–2025, 2020–2025 (6 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Ninogiven name(measured from records)
Giorgigiven name(measured from records)
Davitgiven name(measured from records)
Tamargiven name(measured from records)
Zurabgiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Georgia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Georgia?
გიორგი, according to Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), with 193,037 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Georgia?
ბერიძე, according to Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), with 30,250 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Georgia?
Because they count different people. Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is გიორგი. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Nino. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Georgia”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/GE (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API).