Jürgen
Just 333 men in Poland carry it, and not one boy has been given the name so far this century. Germanic at root, it means "farmer", someone who works the earth.
Jürgen Pronunciation
Jürgen is pronounced YÜRGEN (/jürgɛn/).
What Jürgen means
Where Jürgen comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jürgen is the German form of the name George, and its meaning stays close to the ground: farmer, a worker of the earth. That reading comes from the Greek georgos, made of gē, meaning earth, and ergon, meaning work. Poland has its own cognate in Jerzy. Same source, different tongue.
For a name tied to soil, it belongs mostly to cities and lecture halls. Jürgen Habermas gave it a place in philosophy, and Jürgen Klinsmann took it onto the football pitch. The name ran strong in West Germany through the 1950s and 1960s, then thinned out.
A Polish teacher reading a class register might pause at a Jürgen among the Jerzys and Grzegorzes, sounding out the ü. The name would sit there without a Polish diminutive of its own. What it offers instead is that old meaning, unchanged since the Greek: one who works the earth.
How many people are named Jürgen
1 in 64103 men in Poland is named Jürgen. 333 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1656 among male names.
Jürgen as a middle name
Jürgen is a first name for 333 men in Poland and a middle name for another 259, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 438th, between Dobrosław (260) and Moshe (256).
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#436 Modest265
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#437 Dobrosław260
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#438 Jürgen259
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#439 Moshe256
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#440 Napoleon256