Giurgiu
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈdʒjurdʒju/(recorded in a dictionary) Romanian · from Wiktionary
Giurgiu is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Romania.
- RORomania
- ITItaly
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- RORomania
- ITItaly
- ESSpain
- FRFrance
- GBUnited Kingdom
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Ioan Giurgiub. 1887RORomanian lawyer
- Horațiu Giurgiub. 1938RORomanian basketball player
- Mircia Giurgiub. 1964RORomanian politician
- Tudor Giurgiub. 1972RORomanian filmmaker (born 1972)
- Oana Giurgiub. 1975ROfilm producer (born 1975)
- Gabriel Giurgiub. 1982RORomanian footballer
- Alexandru Giurgiub. 1992ROfootballer
- Adina Giurgiub. 1994RORomanian association football player
- Roxenb. 2000ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer-songwriter
- Remus Florin GiurgiuRORomanian politician from Ceru-Băcăinți, Alba County
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 293 | #12,295 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 293 | #12,266 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #32,069 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #36,035 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #109,163 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #223,037 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Giurgiu mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Giurgiu?
- In Romanian /ˈdʒjurdʒju/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Giurgiu have the most bearers?
- Giurgiu is most frequently recorded in Romania.
What do you want to know about Giurgiu?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giurgiuThe 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, “Giurgiu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.