George
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the male personal name George, ultimately from Greek Georgios, literally 'farmer'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɔdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
George is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Greece it is the 3rd most common given name.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 262(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 303
- USUnited States1 in 526
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 George 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)
- #94 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 666 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 228 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Γεωργιος in GR Greece and Georgios in CY Cyprus.
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 the male personal name George, ultimately from Greek Georgios, literally 'farmer'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
George 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈4,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 303 | — | George | 111 |
| US United States | #42 | 631,924 | 1 in 526 | 630K | George | 666 |
| GR Greece | #3 | 431,868as Γεώργιος | 1 in 25 | 830K | Γεωργιος | 236 |
| GB United Kingdom | #39 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 262 | 3.3K | George | 428 |
| NG Nigeria | #293 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | George | 146 |
| RO Romania | #709 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 228 | 436K | George | 148 |
| MD Moldova | — | 39,504as Gheorghe | 1 in 85 | 40K | — | 39 |
| CY Cyprus | #9 | 26,284as Γιωργος | 1 in 48 | 26K | Georgios | 115 |
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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
George 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 Irish, From Latin Georgius, ‘farmer’; popular in England and Ireland, associated with St George and royal usage.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, from Greek Georgios, ‘land-worker, farmer’; first attested Georgius Grim 12th DC (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Greek for ‘farmer’; name of the patron saint.
as a nameIrish first names
In German, Patronymic form from Georg/George with Latin genitive-style ending; represented especially in central/eastern German areas.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In English, radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- George I of Great Britainb. 1660DEKing of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727
- George IIb. 1683DEKing of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
- George III of Great Britainb. 1738GBKing of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 (1738–1820)
- George IVb. 1762GBKing of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830
- George Eliotb. 1819GBEnglish novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
- George Porterb. 1920GBBritish chemist (1920–2002)
- George Sorosb. 1930HUHungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
- George Saundersb. 1958USAmerican writer (born 1958)
- George Michaelb. 1963GBEnglish singer (1963–2016)
- Kiefer Sutherlandb. 1966GBnot in their usual nameBritish-Canadian actor (born 1966)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 169 sources across 86 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 630K | #64 |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2022 | 158K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2022 | 158K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 3.3K | #6 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #64 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 226 | #641 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 George mean, and where does it come from?
- from the male personal name George, ultimately from Greek Georgios, literally 'farmer'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is George a male or female name?
- George 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 George?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, Jürgen and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages; Geordie is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does George have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 million people named George in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled george.
- How common is the name George?
- In the United States, the national register counted 631,924 people named George in 2020, about 1 in 526 residents.
- How common is George compared with other names?
- In Greece, George is the 3rd most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce George?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɔdʒ/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about George?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/georgeThe 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, “George” — the 3rd most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.