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George
Pronounced /dʒɔːdʒ/
Rank in 2024
#123
Born in 2024
2,890
Peak year
1921 · #6
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:6 in 2024 (#14,660)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,890 boys were named George, about 1 in every 594.
- It peaked in 1921 with 27,476 babies, ranked #6.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,484,412 boys 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.
- 25.7Greatest1901–27
- 17.4Silent1928–45
- 8.9Boomers1946–64
- 4.4Gen X1965–80
- 2.2Millennials1981–96
- 1.4Gen Z1997–12
- 1.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 429,329 babies, 25.68 per 1,000. Silent: 359,985 babies, 17.43 per 1,000. Boomers: 333,867 babies, 8.89 per 1,000. Gen X: 118,964 babies, 4.37 per 1,000. Millennials: 66,399 babies, 2.18 per 1,000. Gen Z: 44,292 babies, 1.41 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 35,164 babies, 1.62 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.