Gevorg
The Armenian form of the name that gave Poland Jerzy, from Greek geōrgos: earth and work joined in the farmer at the plough. Fewer than 250 men carry it here, all of them men, a name most Poles have never met.
Gevorg Pronunciation
What Gevorg means
Where Gevorg comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gevorg begins in Greek soil. It comes from geōrgos, a word built from gē, meaning earth, and ergon, meaning work. Put together, they name a plain and useful figure: the farmer, the one who works the land. In Polish that reading arrives as rolnik, oracz, the person behind the plough.
The name traveled far from Greece before it reached a Polish page. Gevorg is the Armenian form of the name that also gave Europe Georgios and George, and in Armenia it has been carried for centuries by saints, soldiers, and ordinary men. One documented bearer is Gevorg Emin, an Armenian poet of the twentieth century whose work reached readers well beyond his own language.
The meaning stays close to the ground.
A child called Gevorg in Poland today might see the name written out in full on a class register, unabbreviated, distinct from the domestic Jerzy that shares its distant root. There is no separate diminutive here, no softened variant waiting in the wings. What the name offers is its oldest sense, still legible under the spelling: earth and work joined in one person, the oracz who turns the soil.
How many people are named Gevorg
1 in 94036 men in Poland is named Gevorg. 227 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2063 among male names.
Gevorg as a middle name
Gevorg is a first name for 227 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5410th, between Gerry (4) and Gianfranco (4).
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#5408 Gerrard4
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#5409 Gerry4
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#5410 Gevorg4
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#5411 Gianfranco4
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#5412 Gienek4