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Georges

#6,927 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly farmer, earth worker, through George

Georges has been given to 902 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #6,927 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Georges, 2025

1 in 276,000

Georges over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Georges: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly farmer, earth worker, through George

French

What Georges means

Georges belongs to the name family reached through Georges → George. Its meaning is “farmer, earth worker”.

Origin, language, and formation

Georges is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Georges comes through French Georges.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include George.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Georges is pronounced /ʒɔʁʒ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 902 boys were recorded with the name Georges between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,410 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,700 in 2020 to #6,927 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,230 in 2015 to #6,927 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Georges?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,927
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Georges sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Georges. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Georgess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Georges was born before 1986 — so the typical Georges is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
694
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Choose a decade

1990s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Georges rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+487
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+773
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+303
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 1990 (20)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,410
1907

Spellings of Georges

Georges is not the most common spelling — George is, with 99.5% against Georges's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Georges is used

Across 1910–2025, Georges was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 549,224 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Georges has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Georges around the world

Where Georges ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #184
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #808
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Georges by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,927
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 773
Best rank ever
#1,410
1907
Peak year
1990
20 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
902
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Georges

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Georges

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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