Georg
Around 500 Polish men carry it, and no newborns have been given it in years: most Poles have never met one. It's the German and Scandinavian form of George, from a Greek word for a farmer, someone who works the earth.
Georg Pronunciation
Georg is pronounced GE-ork (/ˈgɛɔrk/).
What Georg means
Where Georg comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Georg begins in Greek, in the word geōrgos, a compound of gē, "earth," and ergon, "work." So the oldest sense is plain: farmer, one who works the ground. In Polish that reads rolnik, someone who tills the soil.
The name traveled north and settled. German and Scandinavian families took Georg as their own, and it held firm in both. Much of that spread owes to Saint George, the soldier-martyr whose cult reached across medieval Europe.
There is a small irony here. A name meaning "earth-worker" became the mark of knights and kings rather than plowmen. Georg belonged to Saxon electors and Danish princes. On a Polish class register the form stands out, foreign beside Jerzy, its home-grown cousin.
The word underneath never changed. Georg still names the man who works the earth.
How many people are named Georg
1 in 42438 men in Poland is named Georg. 503 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1315 among male names.
Georg as a middle name
Georg is a first name for 503 men in Poland and a middle name for another 531, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 312th, between Ewald (532) and Simon (529).
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#310 Mario534
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#311 Ewald532
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#312 Georg531
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#313 Simon529
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#314 Can523