girls:
10 births since 1936
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
486 births since 1915
#4100 (11th percentile)
overall:
496 births since 1915
#7243 (6th percentile)
The name Georg is the #7,243 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 496 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,100 (10.5% percentile) for all time with 486 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1936.
Georg first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1936 for girls). Birth data for Georg is available in 69 out of the 108 years between 1915 and 2022 (67 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Georg has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Georg reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #632) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Georg reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #569) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Georg".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Georg. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Georg is pronounced as GEH-org, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jorg, at 24.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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