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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Georg
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,825 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1968
    Peak, #2,109
    15 babies named Georg — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name, a Scandinavian and continental Germanic variant of George.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Georg hasn't yet.

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.