Georges
Georges reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 3,058, and has been recorded 902 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 670 Georgeses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Georges
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 902
- Estimated living today
- 670
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 3,058th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1907
How old the living Georgeses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 902 babies given the name since 1907, about 670 are alive — 75 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Georgess
- Georges Pompidou (1911–1974)President of France from 1969 to 1974
- Georges Bizet (1838–1875)French composer
- Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920
- Georges Danton (1759–1794)French revolutionary
- Georges Simenon (1903–1989)Belgian writer
- Georges Cuvier (1769–1832)French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist
- Georges Braque (1882–1963)French painter and sculptor
- Georges Lemaître (1894–1966)Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest
People named Georges with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Georges is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Georges is most concentrated in New York (11.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Georges peaked:
Georges elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Georges | 405,960 | 9th |
| Belgium boys | Georges | 1,647 | 38th |
| France girls | Georges | 590 | 754th |
| Switzerland boys | Georges | 128 | 441st |
| England and Wales boys | Georges | 64 | 3,040th |
| Poland boys | Georges | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Georges: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Georges | 30 | 0.002% | 713th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Georges | 97 | 0.022% | 139th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Georges | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Georges is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 42 of them.
Georges: rank by region
In 2025, Georges was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Georges | 25 | 128 |
| Wallonia | Georges | 116 | 25 |
| Brussels | Georges | 114 | 10 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Georges appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (8th), Province of East Flanders (31st), Province of Antwerp (37th), Province of Limburg (51st), Province of Flemish Brabant (52nd), Brussels-Capital Region (114th), Province of Liège (117th) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Georges among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Georges | 22 | 72 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Georges lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 212 men called Georges were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Georges | 15 | 0.036 | 1,602 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Georges | 28 | 0.028 | 2,090 |
| Tarragona | Georges | 12 | 0.027 | 1,875 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Georges | 7 | 0.022 | 2,184 |
| Almería | Georges | 7 | 0.018 | 2,641 |
| Málaga | Georges | 16 | 0.018 | 2,394 |
Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Georges against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.