George

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named George boys named George

By the numbers

Total US births

1,497,260

Estimated living today

548,000

Median age today

63

Peak year

1921

Best rank

6th

Rank in 2025

126th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

9,963 / 1,487,297

How old the living Georges are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,497,260 babies given the name since 1880, about 548,000 are alive — 37 in every hundred. Roughly 50,000 of them are children and 257,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος, from γεωργός (“farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (“earth”) (combining form γεω-) + ἔργον (“work”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Georges

• George W. Bush (born 1946)President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
• George Washington (1732–1799)Founding Father and first U.S. president
• George Orwell (1903–1950)British writer and journalist
• George H. W. Bush (1924–2018)president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)German-British Baroque composer
• George Eliot (1819–1880)English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist
• George Sand (1804–1876)French novelist and memoirist

People named George with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where George is most common

• NY135,743
• PA119,780
• CA80,900
• IL72,540
• TX67,265
• OH62,332
• NJ54,860
• MA50,448
• MI45,435
• NC42,079

Relative to how many babies each state records, George is most concentrated in Rhode Island (1.6×), Pennsylvania (1.6×), the District of Columbia (1.6×), Hawaii (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular boys’ names the year George peaked:

• John
• Robert
• William
• James
• Charles
• George

All the names of 1921

George elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

George: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, George is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 41 of them.

George: rank by region

In 2025, George was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2025, George was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, George appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (82nd), Province of Limburg (109th), Province of West Flanders (121st) and Province of Antwerp (163rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

George by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

George among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where George lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,015 men called George were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Georgia
• Geoffrey
• Georgina
• Georgie
• Georgette
• Georgiana
• Georgianna
• Geovanni
• Georgene
• Georgetta
• Geovanny
• Georgine

George against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• George vs Georgia
• George vs Geoffrey
• George vs Georgina
• George vs Georgie
• George vs Georgette
• George vs Georgiana

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