Gheorghe

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gheorghe is a given name, most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 23◐
  • MDMoldova1 in 85
  • ESSpain1 in 8.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈49K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
162 ●

58K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 85 ◐

Moldova

Meaning & origin●

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gheorghe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#41,349,61224K rec.—436KGheorghe133
MD Moldova#1839,504△1.6K rec.1 in 8540KGheorghe59
ES Spain—5,8344.5K rec.1 in 8.6K6.1KGheorghe76
GB United Kingdom—3,2482.7K rec.—listedGheorghe88
IT Italy—2,9124.6K rec.—6Gheorghe74
US United States—1,25915K rec.1 in 264K1.3KGheorghe162
PL Poland#9701,234△23 rec.1 in 31K1.2KGheorghe20
TR Türkiye—9561.1K rec.——Gheorghe15
BE Belgium—676713 rec.—285Gheorghe33
CA Canada—578790 rec.——Gheorghe61
SE Sweden—494△80 rec.1 in 21K494—19
RU Russia—355331 rec.——Gheorghe51

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian871K59%
  • English444K30%
  • Romanian99K7%
  • Spanish30K2%
  • French11K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian871,40559%
English444,48030%
Romanian98,9357%
Spanish29,9552%
French10,6461%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gheorghe is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name23K records spelled Gheorghe4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Romania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ghéorghe, Gheòrģhe

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010020030040020002005201020152020351 · 2019

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Gheorghe in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999147
2000149
2001144
2002147
2003143
2004141
2005141
2006139
2007160
2008194
2009210
2010223
2011238
2012252
2013275
2014272
2015290
2016312
2017327
2018341
2019351
2020346

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Georgi Plekhanov, b. 1856Georgy Lvov, b. 1861George Gurdjieff, b. 1866George Gapon, b. 1870Georgi Dimitrov, b. 1882Georgy Zhukov, b. 1896Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, b. 1901Georgy Malenkov, b. 1902Gheorghe Hagi, b. 1965Giorgi Kvirikashvili, b. 1967
  • Georgi Plekhanovb. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian philosopher (1856–1918)
  • Georgy Lvovb. 1861DEnot in their usual nameRussian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)
  • George Gurdjieffb. 1866AMnot in their usual namephilosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
  • George Gaponb. 1870UAnot in their usual nameRussian priest (1870-1906)
  • Georgi Dimitrovb. 1882BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician (1882–1949)
  • Georgy Zhukovb. 1896RUnot in their usual nameMarshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1974)
  • Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dejb. 1901RO47th Prime Minister of Romania (1952-1955)
  • Georgy Malenkovb. 1902RUnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1902–1988)
  • Gheorghe Hagib. 1965RORomanian association football player and manager
  • Giorgi Kvirikashvilib. 1967GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 56 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Gheorghe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot2022436K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names2022436K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—40K#23
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.1K#359
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.8K#799
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.5K#2,033
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#2,032
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,503
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.2K#440
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.1K#451
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—690#2,048
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—494#2,798

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 132 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gheorghe?
We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Gheorghe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Gheorghe have the most bearers?
Gheorghe is most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is most often spelled gheorghe.
How common is Gheorghe compared with other names?
In Romania, Gheorghe is the 4th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
Is Gheorghe a male or female name?
Gheorghe is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Gheorghe mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gheorghe” — the 4th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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