Georg
Where Georg comes from
From Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Georg, from Latin Geōrgius. The slang sense is from Spiders Georg.
Along the way
- 1915First appearance#3,825 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1954Mostly boys from hereUntil now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
- 1968Peak, #2,10915 babies named Georg — more than any year before or since.
- 1971The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
- A male given name, a Scandinavian and continental Germanic variant of George.
Namesakes
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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.