# Georg (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/georg/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 497 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 487 / 10 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Georg, from Latin Geōrgius. The slang sense is from Spiders Georg.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 5 | 4,455 |
| 1952 | 5 | 5,859 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | 7,676 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,487 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,653 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,774 |
| 1998 | 8 | 7,074 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8,498 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,276 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,186 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,935 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12,894 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,997 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,008 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,240 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,766 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |

## People named Georg

- George Frideric Handel, German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
- Georg Cantor, German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)
- Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
- George Grosz, German artist (1893–1959)
- Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (1887-1914)
- Georg Brandes, Danish literature critic and scholar (1842–1927)
- Georg Wittig, German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
- Georg Forster, German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)
- Georg Baselitz, German artist (1938–2026)
- Georg von Hertling, German chancellor (1843–1919)
- Georg Michaelis, German civil servant and chancellor (1857-1936)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.