Goerge
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Goerge has been given to 209 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Goerge, 1991
1 in 556,000
Goerge over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Goerge?
Goerge had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 556,000
- 7 of 3,892,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 288,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 385,483 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Goerge sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 385,483 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Goerge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Goerges were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Goerge was born before 1973 — so the typical Goerge is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 147
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Goerge 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1985 (11)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Goerge
Goerge is not the most common spelling — George is, with 91.1% against Goerge's 0.01%.
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.
Goerge around the world
Where Goerge 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.
- South Australia1976–1976#651in 1976
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Goerge by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Goerge
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Goerge
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.