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George
Pronounced /dʒɔːdʒ/
Rank in 2024
#14,660
Born in 2024
6
Peak year
1927 · #436
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for boys:2,890 in 2024 (#123)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 6 girls were named George, about 1 in every 268,865.
- It peaked in 1927 with 248 babies, ranked #436.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 9,957 girls have been named George since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named George per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,021 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Silent: 2,832 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,888 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 909 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 443 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 117 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 34 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese. The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- A diminutive of the female given names Georgina and Georgia; also used in the conjoined name George Ann(e).
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /dʒɔːdʒ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for George, CC BY-SA 4.0.