Jorge
Feminine · “farmer”
Jorge is given to boys far more often — 139,476 boys against 690 girls since 1880. See Jorge as a boy name
Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of a Greek name meaning a farmer, and American records treat it and the English form as two separate names, which they are not. Its most famous modern bearer was appointed to run a library at the point he could no longer read.
How old is the name Jorge?
Jorge first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Jorge alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 700 people named Jorge are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jorge most popular?
Jorge peaked in 1979, reaching #2931 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Georgios to Jorge
The story of Jorge
Jorge Luis Borges was appointed director of the National Library of Argentina in the mid-nineteen-fifties, at almost exactly the point when his eyesight failed completely. He had inherited the condition from his father and had been losing it for years. He wrote about the coincidence in a poem, calling it God's splendid irony to give him at once eight hundred thousand books and darkness, and noted that two of the library's previous directors had also been blind. He held the post for eighteen years, could not read a line of what he was in charge of, and dictated everything he wrote from then on. His account of blindness is unsentimental: he said it came on gradually, like a slow summer dusk, and that the last color to go was yellow.
Meaning
farmer; one who works the earth
A Greek compound joining the word for earth to one meaning work. Spanish took the name from Latin and rebuilt it around its own sound system, which is why the g here is a throat sound and the ending is a vowel. The dragon everyone associates with the saint is a much later addition to his story.
How the name formed
- Georgios
- Georgius
- Jorge
Related forms: George · Jorge · Giorgio · Georg · Georgy
Pronouncing Jorge
HOR-heh
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Both g's are the Spanish throat sound, which English has no letter for; Portuguese says the same spelling quite differently, closer to ZHOR-zhuh.
Nicknames for Jorge
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
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 199431 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2931reached in 1979
- Change vs 2007
- +20.0%6 in 2012, from 5
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.
Jorge in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- George in English — same name
- Jorge in Portuguese — same name
- Giorgio in Italian — same name
- Georg in German — same name
- Georgy in Russian — same name
Jorges among us
people named Jorge are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jorge sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is one of the most widely used men's names in the Spanish-speaking world.
- The meaning is documented, plain and immediately understandable.
- It is short, regular and easy for Spanish speakers of any background.
- English speakers cannot produce the Spanish sound and will say it several ways.
- George will be written for it by people who assume they are the same name in the same language.
- Portuguese and Spanish say the identical spelling differently, which matters in mixed families.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jorges are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jorge are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jorge in 2025?
- Jorge is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jorge with classmates?
- Jorge will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with J, all years combined.
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