Gheorghe
Barely over a thousand Polish men carry it, and today it goes to almost no newborns: most Poles have never met one. Greek at root, from a word meaning "farmer".
Gheorghe Pronunciation
What Gheorghe means
Where Gheorghe comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gheorghe comes from Greek. The source word, geōrgos, joined gē, meaning earth, with ergon, meaning work, so the name pointed at a person who worked the land. That sense survives without disguise. In English the meaning reads as farmer, and a Polish register would set rolnik beside it.
The form itself belongs to Romanian, where Gheorghe has been one of the steadiest men's names for generations. It travelled a long way from Greek soil to get there. One well known bearer is Gheorghe Hagi, the footballer many Romanians rank as their finest, a name recognised well past his country's borders.
For a Polish reader meeting the name on an official form at the urząd, Gheorghe may look foreign in spelling while resting on an idea anyone can follow. The person named for the field. The meaning stays simple. Whatever else a life holds, Gheorghe keeps its first job in view: the farmer, the one who works the earth.
How many people are named Gheorghe
1 in 19728 men in Poland is named Gheorghe. 1,082 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #927 among male names.
Gheorghe as a middle name
Gheorghe is a first name for 1,082 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1473rd, between Gerrit (32) and Hiacynt (32).
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#1471 Franck32
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#1472 Gerrit32
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#1473 Gheorghe32
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#1474 Hiacynt32
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#1475 Ildefons32