Georgina
From Greek, a feminine form built on Georgios: ge for earth, ergon for work, so at root a farmer. Most Poles have never met one, and the handful given each year go only to girls.
Georgina Pronunciation
Georgina is pronounced ge-or-GEE-nah (/gɛɔrˈgina/).
What Georgina means
Where Georgina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Georgina comes from Greek. Behind it stands Georgios, built from ge, meaning earth, and ergon, meaning work. The word georgos named a farmer, the person who turns the soil. The short meaning stays close to the ground: farmer, earth-worker.
English speakers gave Georgina its shine. It grew as a feminine form of George, a name carried by four kings on the British throne between 1714 and 1830. Georgina traveled with that fashion and settled into steady use.
In Polish and East Slavic records the name meets a variant, heorhina, carried over from the eastern form of George. On a class register a Georgina and a Heorhina might sit two lines apart, the same root under different spelling.
The farming sense rarely crosses a parent's mind now. Still it holds. A Georgina answers to a word that once meant the one who works the field, rolniczka in plain Polish.
How many people are named Georgina
1 in 132611 women in Poland is named Georgina. 170 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2453 among female names.
Georgina's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1580 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Georgina as a middle name
Georgina is a first name for 170 women in Poland and a middle name for another 96, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 680th, between Nastazja (97) and Jade (96).
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#678 Gabriele97
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#679 Nastazja97
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#680 Georgina96
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#681 Jade96
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#682 Soledad96