Heorhii
A Ukrainian name from the Greek for "farmer, one who works the land". Given only to boys and carried by Ukrainian families in Poland, it stays rare here: most Poles have never met one.
Heorhii Pronunciation
Heorhii is pronounced khe-ORKH-yee (/xɛˈɔrxji/).
What Heorhii means
Where Heorhii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Heorhii comes from the Greek Georgios, built from ge, meaning earth, and ergon, meaning work. So the name means farmer, one who works the soil. Ukrainian speakers carry it as their own form of a root that travelled far, the same root that gave English George and Polish Jerzy.
The farmer sense is literal here. A Georgios was someone who turned the ground and waited for it to yield.
In Ukraine the name belongs to Saint George, the soldier-martyr shown on horseback with a spear. His feast falls on the sixth of May in the Ukrainian church calendar. A boy named Heorhii shares that day.
Picture a class register read aloud on the first day of school, the teacher reaching the H. Heorhii answers. The name is short to say and old past counting. It means earthworker.
How many people are named Heorhii
1 in 10705 men in Poland is named Heorhii. 1,994 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #706 among male names.
Heorhii's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1053 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #706 name among living men, even as it slips to #1053 among newborns.
Where Heorhii is most popular
Heorhii is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Heorhii as a middle name
Heorhii is a first name for 1,994 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5446th, between Helmuth (4) and Hermenegild (4).
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5444
4Hauke
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5445
4Helmuth
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54464Heorhii
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5447
4Hermenegild
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5448
4Hero