Jorge

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Greek Geōrgios, from gē "earth" + ergon "work"; "farmer, tiller of the earth"

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/xoɾxe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jorge is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 76(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 78
  • PEPeru≈1 in 96

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

≈600,000 people, est.

#99 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
547 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 76 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JorgeLatin(measured from records)
חורחהHebrew(measured from records)

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)

Greek Geōrgios, from gē "earth" + ergon "work"; "farmer, tiller of the earth"

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

How Jorge is read(measured from records)

Jorge is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish71%

    Greek Geōrgios, from gē "earth" + ergon "work"; "farmer, tiller of the earth"

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

    a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English9.8%

    Portuguese/Spanish form of George; farmer.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Portuguese9.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jorge in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jorge 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.

Where Jorge is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#11≈600,000 est.≈1 in 766.6KJorge210
BR Brazil#44420,4141 in 504466KJorge249
PE Peru#10≈330,000 est.≈1 in 96275KJorge179
CO Colombia#20≈330,000 est.≈1 in 150408Jorge249
US United States#346282,8661 in 1.2K282KJorge547
EC Ecuador#9216,2521 in 78216KJorge140
PY Paraguay#9≈72,000 est.≈1 in 100—Jorge102
CR Costa Rica—40,0881 in 12740K—147

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jorge is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Joerge, Jörge, Jörgë, Jorgé, Jorge'

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jörge, Jorgé

  • French given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Jorgé, Jòrgë, Jörge, Jôrge, Jorgê

  • Hindi given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jörgë, Jörge, Jörgê

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Хорхе, Хорхэ, Jõřģê, Jörgë

  • Lao given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Chile

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Jórgé, Jörgë, Jorge', Jörge, Jòrgè

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jörgë, Jörgê

95 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jorge is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from the personal name Jorge, a borrowing of French (and English) George.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Brasil, Évora, São Martinho, Campo de Víboras, Castelo Branco, Penamacor, Póvoa de Redemoinhos, Sarzedas, Portugal, Ciudad de Mexico; from Greek Georgios, 'farmer'

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Swedish, Jorge är en spansk och portugisisk form av → Georg.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

18801900192019401960Jorge Alessandri, b. 1896Jorge Luis Borges, b. 1899Jorge Amado, b. 1912Jorge Semprún, b. 1923Jorge Rafael Videla, b. 1925Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, b. 1927Mario Vargas Llosa, b. 1936Pope Francis, b. 1936Jorge Sampaio, b. 1939Jorge Valdano, b. 1955

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)

InformalHola Jorge,Hi Jorge, (English)

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 113 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Jorge
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—466K#83
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022420K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—419K#64
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020282K#186
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019275K#5
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024216K#5
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—40K#7
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20207.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#64
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020548#186
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—408#7

Reference works 8

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

How do you pronounce Jorge?
A machine transcription gives /xoɾxe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Jorge mean, and where does it come from?
Greek Geōrgios, from gē "earth" + ergon "work"; "farmer, tiller of the earth" Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
What are other forms of the name Jorge?
In the etymology graph, George, Jürgen and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages; Jorginho is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Jorge have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 599 thousand people named Jorge in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jorge.
How common is the name Jorge?
In Brazil, the national register counted 420,414 people named Jorge in 2022, about 1 in 504 residents.
How common is Jorge compared with other names?
In Argentina, Jorge is the 11th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
Is Jorge a male or female name?
Jorge 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.

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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, “Jorge” — the 11th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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