Georgi
From the Greek for "farmer", someone who works the earth. In Poland it stays rare, carried by only about 300 men, and it has never been given to anyone but boys.
Georgi Pronunciation
Georgi is pronounced ge-OR-gee (/gɛˈɔrgi/).
What Georgi means
Where Georgi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Georgi begins in Greek. Behind it sits the word georgos, a farmer, built from ge, meaning earth, and ergon, meaning work. Read plainly, the name says earthworker, the one who turns soil into food. In Polish that is rolnik.
The Greek georgos was an ordinary word before it was ever a name. It described the man who ploughed and sowed, and it later lent its shape to Saint George, the fourth-century martyr whose story spread across the Christian world. Georgi is one of the forms that word took as it moved east and south, common in Bulgaria and across the Slavic Orthodox lands.
A name can hold a whole occupation. This one does. When a Georgi signs a form at the urząd, few readers stop to hear the field inside the letters, yet the field is there, in the Greek ge. The meaning has not drifted far from the ground. Georgi still says earthworker, still says rolnik.
How many people are named Georgi
1 in 69082 men in Poland is named Georgi. 309 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1720 among male names.
Georgi's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Georgi as a middle name
Georgi is a first name for 309 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1855th, between Fidel (22) and Gilberto (22).
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#1853 Faris22
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#1857 Glen22