Giorgio
Masculine · “farmer”
Giorgio is the Italian of George — a farmer, in Greek — and the saint who carried it fought a dragon that nobody mentioned for eight centuries.
How old is the name Giorgio?
Giorgio first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Giorgio alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,100 people named Giorgio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Giorgio most popular?
Giorgio peaked in 1988, reaching #1355 nationally. Today it ranks #1959, 604 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From georgos to Giorgio
The story of Giorgio
George was a soldier martyred under Diocletian, and his cult spread from Palestine across the whole Christian world. The dragon appears first in the Golden Legend of the thirteenth century, nine hundred years after his death. Giorgio is standard in Italian and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
farmer, earth-worker
From the Greek georgos — ge, 'earth', and ergon, 'work'. Both elements are ordinary Greek and the compound is transparent and undisputed. Italian took Georgius as Giorgio. The dragon is a twelfth-century addition to a much older martyr's cult.
How the name formed
- georgos
- Georgius
- Giorgio
Related forms: Giorgio · George · Georgios · Jorge
Pronouncing Giorgio
JOR-joh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Italian says it the same way with a softer final vowel.
Nicknames for Giorgio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1961
- Most boys named
- 202496 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1355reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −18.8%78 in 2025, from 96
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Giorgio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Giorgio in Italian — same name
- George in English — related form
- Georgios in Greek — related form
- Jorge in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Florida.
Giorgios among us
people named Giorgio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 21,898 born in 2025 was named Giorgio
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Keefe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Giorgio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keefe climbed just as high around 1963, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keefe's path sketches the road Giorgio is walking now.
Giorgio sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Giorgio is headed
Giorgio should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Giorgio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Giorgio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The earth-worker meaning is transparent, undisputed and pleasantly unglamorous.
- That the dragon arrived nine centuries late is a genuinely good fact.
- Gio is a short form with real modern currency.
- A fashion house carries the name strongly.
- George is the form English speakers will assume.
- It reads as distinctly Italian.
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Frequently asked
- How many Giorgios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Giorgio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Giorgio in 2025?
- Giorgio ranks #1959 among US boy names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Giorgio?
- About 1 in every 21,898 US boys born in 2025 was named Giorgio — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Giorgio with classmates?
- Giorgio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Giorgio
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