Georges
A French form of George, from the Greek word for farmer. Only 118 men in Poland carry it, and it's given almost never now, so most Poles have never met one.
Georges Pronunciation
Georges is pronounced ge-OR-ges (/gɛˈɔrgɛs/).
What Georges means
Where Georges comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Georges comes from the Greek Georgios, built from gē, meaning earth, and ergon, meaning work. Put together, the word names a farmer, someone who works the soil. In Polish that is rolnik. The Greek root traveled west and settled into French, where Georges became one of the steady masculine names of the language.
France gave the name to people the world still reads and hears. Georges Bizet wrote the opera Carmen. Georges Braque painted beside Picasso in the first cubist years. Georges Pompidou served as president of France. The farmer's name sat above men who never touched a plough.
In a Polish class register, Georges stands out among the Jerzys and Grzegorzes, foreign at first glance. A clerk at the urząd might pause over the spelling. The name still means what it meant in Greek: a worker of the earth, a rolnik.
How many people are named Georges
1 in 180900 men in Poland is named Georges. 118 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3108 among male names.
Georges's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Georges as a middle name
Georges is a first name for 118 men in Poland and a middle name for another 167, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 540th, between Friedrich (167) and Gilbert (167).
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#538 Chandra167
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#539 Friedrich167
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#540 Georges167
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#541 Gilbert167
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#542 Maxymilian166