George

A male given name: from a Greek word meaning “farmer.”.

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George is a widespread given name, derived from the Greek Γεώργιος (Geōrgios) through the Latin Georgius. While it is commonly a masculine name, in English it is also sometimes given as a feminine name. Its popularity is due to the widespread veneration of the Christian military saint Saint George (George of Lydda c. 275/281–303).
The name derives in origin from the name of Zeus Georgos, worshipped as a god of crops.

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Masc. personal name, from French Georges, Late Latin Georgius, from Greek Georgos "husbandman, farmer," properly an adjective, "tilling the ground," from ge "earth" (see Gaia) + ergon "work" (from PIE root *werg- "to do"). The name introduced in England by the Crusaders (a vision of St. George played a key role in the First Crusade), but not common until after the Hanoverian succession (18c.). St. George began to be recognized as patron of England in time of Edward III, perhaps because of his association with the Order of the Garter (see garter). His feast day is April 23. The legend of his combat with the dragon is first found in "Legenda Aurea" (13c.). The exclamation by (St.) George! is recorded from 1590s. The cult of George reached its apogee in the later Middle Ages: by then not only England, but Venice, Genoa, Portugal, and Catalonia regarded him as their patron: for all he was the personification of the ideals of Christian chivalry. [The Oxford Dictionary of Saints]

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Earth worker, farmer.

Giorgio, Georgi, Giorgos, Georgios, Jay, Georgiana, Georg, Jerzy, Jorge, Yuri, Gjergj, Georges, Georgia, Giorgi, Georgina, Gregoire, Jørgen, Gregory, Joe

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	George VI	1895	King of the United Kingdom
2	George W. Bush	1946	43rd President of the United States
3	George Michael	1963	English singer-songwriter, musician, producer
4	George H. W. Bush	1924	American politician, 41st president of the United States
5	George Washington	1732	First President of the United States
6	George Clooney	1961	American actor, filmmaker, and activist
7	George V	1865	King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
8	George Soros	1930	Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
9	George Harrison	1943	British musician, former member of the Beatles
10	George Lucas	1944	American film producer
11	George III of Great Britain	1738	King of Great Britain and King of Ireland
12	George R. R. Martin	1948	American writer, screenwriter and television producer
13	George Jung	1942	Major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s
14	George S. Patton	1885	United States Army general
15	Boy George	1961	English musician
16	George Orwell	1903	English author and journalist
17	George Foreman	1949	A retired American professional boxer, ordained Baptist minister, author and entrepreneur
18	George Carlin	1937	American stand-up comedian
19	George IV of the United Kingdom	1762	British monarch
20	George Best	1946	British footballer
21	George Corley Wallace Jr.	1919	45th Governor of Alabama
22	George II of Great Britain	1683	British monarch
23	George Hamilton	1939	American actor
24	George Takei	1937	American actor and author
25	Paul George	1990	American professional basketball player
26	George I of Great Britain	1660	King of Great Britain
27	George Boole	1815	English mathematician, philosopher and logician
28	George Washington Carver	1864	Botanist
29	George Bernard Shaw	1856	Irish playwright
30	George Raft	1901	American actor
31	George Armstrong Custer	1839	United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
32	George Lazenby	1939	Australian actor
33	George Strait	1952	American country music singer, actor and music producer
34	George Kennedy	1925	American actor
35	George Martin	1926	English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician
36	George Lopez	1961	American comedian, actor, and talk show host
37	George C. Scott	1927	American actor, film director and producer
38	George Zimmerman	1983	American neighborhood watch coordinator who shot and killed Trayvon Martin
39	Saint George	0280	Christian saint and martyr
40	George Peppard	1928	American actor
41	George O'Malley
42	George Osborne	1971	British politician (b. 1971)
43	George Stephanopoulos	1961	Government official, journalist, writer
44	Melissa George	1976	Australian-American actress
45	George Reeves	1914	American actor
46	George Miller	1945	Australian film director
47	George Frideric Handel	1685	German, later British Baroque composer
48	George Gershwin	1898	American composer and pianist
49	George Sanders	1906	English film and television actor
50	George Weah	1966	Liberian footballer and politician
51	George Stinney	1929	American murderer
52	George Eliot	1819	English novelist, journalist and translator
53	David Lloyd George	1863	British Liberal politician and statesman
54	George Ezra	1993	An English singer-songwriter
55	George Burns	1896	American comedian, actor, and writer
56	George A. Romero	1940	American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter and editor
57	George Mallory	1886	British mountaineer
58	George DiCaprio	1943	Writer
59	George MacKay	1992	English actor
60	George Blagden	1989	British actor
61	George Jones	1931	American musician, singer and songwriter
62	George Hotz	1989	American hacker
63	George Eads	1967	American actor
64	George McGovern	1922	American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate
65	George P. Bush	1976	American businessman
66	George Segal	1934	American film, stage, and television actor
67	George Marshall	1880	US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
68	George Galloway	1954	British politician, broadcaster, and writer
69	Helen George	1984	English television actress
70	George B. McClellan	1826	American major-general during the American Civil War
71	George Costanza		Main character on the TV show Seinfeld
72	Mia George	1992	Indian film actress
73	George Benson	1943	American musician
74	George Steele	1937	American professional wrestler
75	Eddie George	1973	All-American college football player, professional football player, running back, Heisman Trophy winner
76	George Sand	1804	French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
77	George I of Greece	1845	King of Greece from 1863 to 1913
78	George Clinton	1739	American soldier and statesman, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
79	George Pataki	1945	53rd Governor of New York
80	George Wendt	1948	American Actor
81	George Gaynes	1917	American actor
82	Curious George
83	George Lincoln Rockwell	1918	American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party
84	George Will	1941	American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
85	George Thorogood	1950	American blues rock vocalist/guitarist
86	George Groves	1988	Boxer
87	George W. Romney	1907	American business executive and politician
88	George Gervin	1952	American basketball player
89	George Steinbrenner	1930	American businessman, Major League Baseball team owner
90	George Shelley	1993	British singer
91	George Cornell	1928	English mobster
92	George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon	1866	British aristocrat
93	George M. Cohan	1878	American composer and playwright
94	George Coe	1929	American actor
95	George Hill	1986	American basketball player
96	George Chakiris	1934	American dancer, singer and actor
97	George Calombaris	1978	Australian chef
98	George Mikan	1924	American basketball player, coach, commissioner
99	George Karl	1951	American basketball player and coach
100	Susan George	1950	Film and television actress; film producer
101	George McFarland	1928	Film actor
102	George Mason	1725	American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
103	George Blanda	1927	American football player
104	George Halas	1895	American football player, coach, executive and owner; baseball player
105	George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence	1449	Third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English Kings Edward IV and Richard III
106	George Cole	1925	Actor from England
107	George Clarke	1974	British architect, television presenter, lecturer and writer
108	George Santayana	1863	20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
109	George Gurdjieff	1866	Influential spiritual teacher
110	George Brett	1953	Major League Baseball third baseman
111	George Dzundza	1945	American actor
112	George P. Shultz	1920	American economist, statesman, and businessman
113	George Newbern	1964	American actor
114	George Stephenson	1781	English civil engineer and mechanical engineer
115	George Washington Williams	1849	American Civil War soldier, Christian minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer
116	George Washington Vanderbilt II	1862	Member of prominent Vanderbilt family
117	George Bernard Dantzig	1914	American mathematician
118	George Eastman	1854	American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer
119	George Hearst	1820	American politician
120	George Berkeley	1685	Anglo-Irish philosopher
121	Christopher George	1929	American actor
122	George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews	1962	British Earl
123	George Lindsey	1928	American actor, television personality, writer, narrator, speaker
124	George Westinghouse	1846	American businessman
125	George Pell	1941	Catholic cardinal
126	George North	1992	Rugby union player from Wales
127	George Whitefield	1714	English minister and preacher
128	Lynda Day George	1944	American actress
129	George F. Kennan	1904	American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
130	George Plimpton	1927	Journalist, writer, editor, actor
131	George Hill Hodel	1907	US physician, suspected murderer
132	George Formby	1904	English Music hall, film, singer, comedian
133	George Balanchine	1904	Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)
134	George P. Burdell		A fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke
135	George J. Mitchell	1933	American politician
136	George Stroumboulopoulos	1972	Canadian broadcaster
137	George Sampson	1993	Street dancer
138	George Wallace	1952	American actor
139	Chief Dan George	1899	Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation
140	Lowell George	1945	American musician
141	George Wagner	1915	American professional wrestler
142	Phyllis George	1949	American businesswoman, actress, and sportscaster
143	George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham	1592	Politician from England
144	George Watsky	1986	American rapper
145	George O. Gore II	1982	American actor
146	George de Mohrenschildt	1911	American geologist
147	George Maharis	1928	American actor
148	George Saunders	1958	American short story writer
149	George Patton IV	1923	U.S. Army general
150	Brian George	1952	British actor
151	George Tiller	1941	American physician from Wichita, Kansas
152	George Meade	1815	Union Army general
153	Henry George	1839	American economist
154	George Fernandes	1930	Indian politician
155	George Lynch	1954	American musician
156	George Smiley		Chraracter by John le Carré
157	Jeff George	1967	American football player, quarterback
158	George Cukor	1899	American film director and producer
159	George Chuvalo	1937	Retired Canadian heavyweight boxer
160	George Tenet	1953	Director of the CIA
161	George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon	1956	British noble
162	George Moscone	1929	American politician
163	George II of Greece	1890	Greek King
164	George Herbert Mead	1863	American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
165	George Lamb	1979	English television presenter
166	George Baker	1931	English actor and writer
167	George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	1859	British politician
168	George Pickett	1825	Confederate Army general
169	George Duke	1946	American musician
170	George P. Putnam	1887	Publisher, Author, Promoter
171	George Vancouver	1757	English naval explorer
172	George Dewey	1837	United States Navy admiral
173	George Akerlof	1940	American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics
174	George Springer	1989	American baseball player
175	George Graham	1944	Footballer
176	George Barris	1925	Auto customizer
177	George F. Smoot	1945	American astrophysicist and cosmologist
178	George MacDonald	1824	Scottish journalist, novelist
179	George Herbert	1593	Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
180	George Ford	1993	English rugby union player
181	George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood	1923	British noble
182	George Everest	1790	Welsh surveyor and geographer
183	George V of Hannover	1819	King of Hanover
184	Bobby George	1945	British darts player
185	Max George	1988	British singer, songwriter and producer
186	George de Hevesy	1885	Hungarian chemist
187	George Montgomery	1916	American actor and artist
188	George "Gabby" Hayes	1885	American actor
189	George Monbiot	1963	English writer and political activist
190	George Gobel	1919	American comedian
191	George Rogers Clark	1752	American general
192	George Friedman	1949	American businessman and political scientist
193	Jason Winston George	1972	American actor and model
194	Anju Bobby George	1977	Indian long jumper
195	George Alagiah	1955	British newsreader
196	George Eacker
197	George Deukmejian	1928	American politician
198	George Müller	1805	German-English clergyman
199	George Brent	1899	Actor
200	George Stults	1975	American actor