Names of Georgia GE

Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) records Გიორგი as the commonest given name in Georgia and Ბერიძე as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Georgia from the rest of the world are Nino, Zurab and Irakli.

Written in Georgian.

Population
4M
Official registers
7
Name forms recorded
49K
ABuilt from 7 official registers, 48,610 name forms in our corpus, 2 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Georgia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Georgia included.

How names work in Georgia

Names in Georgia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Georgia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) — 42,024 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Გიორგი193K2
2Ნინო116K—
3Მარიამ72K—
4Დავით68K—
5Ანა50K—
6Მარიამი49K—
7Თამარ48K—
8Ალექსანდრე47K32
9Მაია47K—
10Ლუკა46K—
11Ნანა42K—
12Ნიკოლოზ40K40
13Ელენე40K—
14Ნათია38K—
15Ირაკლი36K—
16Მანანა32K—
17Ქეთევან32K—
18Საბა30K58
19Ზურაბ29K—
20Თამარი29K—

Where the two lists disagree

24 of Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API)Across all recordsგიორგი: 1 → 21. გიორგი2ნინო: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ნინოnot rankedმარიამ: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. მარიამnot rankedდავით: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. დავითnot rankedანა: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. ანაnot rankedმარიამი: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. მარიამიnot rankedთამარ: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. თამარnot rankedალექსანდრე: 8 → 32 · ranks lower across all records8. ალექსანდრე32მაია: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. მაიაnot rankedლუკა: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. ლუკაnot rankedნანა: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. ნანაnot rankedნიკოლოზ: 12 → 40 · ranks lower across all records12. ნიკოლოზ40ელენე: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. ელენეnot rankedნათია: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. ნათიაnot rankedირაკლი: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. ირაკლიnot rankedმანანა: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. მანანაnot rankedქეთევან: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. ქეთევანnot rankedსაბა: 18 → 58 · ranks lower across all records18. საბა58ზურაბ: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. ზურაბnot rankedთამარი: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. თამარიnot rankedლევან: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. ლევანnot rankedსალომე: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. სალომეnot rankedმარინე: 23 → 41 · ranks lower across all records23. მარინე41დავითი: 24 → 50 · ranks lower across all records24. დავითი50ლაშა: 25 → 56 · ranks lower across all records25. ლაშა56
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) on the left; every record we hold for Georgia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Georgia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Georgia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

NinoᲒიორგიZurabIrakliLevanKetevanTamarVakhtangNananaTiaTinatinRevazNikaGelaTornikeMananaGvantsaRusudanZviadGigaKakhaSalomeBekaEkaMaiaNutsaTemoShotaSandroᲮათუნაnaTelaLukaᲓავითიᲒოჩაeTeriᲛამუკაLiaᲖაზაMziaᲚალიDavitᲚაშაavTandilᲛარინეᲡაბაᲡოფიოGiviLianaoTarNanuliᲗეონაTamazMariamMakaᲨორენაTengizᲜიკოლოზიTeimurazGuramLela
Sized by how much of the difference between Georgia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

ᲛარიამიᲛართაᲔლენეᲚილეᲔვა202020251,660
PSDA Georgia — popular given names 2020–2025, 2020–2025 (6 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Georgia are written in Latin (70%) and Georgian (30%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Ninogiven name●
Გიორგიgiven name●George
Mariamgiven name●
Tamargiven name●
Davitgiven name●
The best-attested names in Georgia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API)headline

    Public Service Development Agency (PSDA/SDA), Ministry of Justice of Georgia. Counts: residents. given and surname. 42,024 forms. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    PSDA/SDA (სახელმწიფო სერვისების განვითარების სააგენტო) civil-registry name statistics API, verified live 2026-06-27 (reachable directly, no proxy). Endpoints: GET /api/namestatistics-search?type=<bool>&gender=<bool>&regionId=<int>&name=<UTF8> (type=true given, type=false surname; returns [{name,count}], [] = name not in registry); GET /api/namestatistics-popular (top-20 male/female given + male/female/both surnames with counts -> harvested as ranked high-value seed); GET /api/namestatistics-regions (region ids). This is a per-token form, so it is fed a query seed: given names from ge-curated-names (~60.6K Georgian-script tokens), surnames from parse_dict v4 fused_posterior (ka SURNAME, count_raw>=5, ~18K Georgian-script tokens) plus popular-endpoint surnames. Counts are national stock totals (not annual flows). Names in Georgian script (Mkhedruli). Every response incl. zeros/absent cached under raw/GE/sda_cache/; fetcher (scripts/fetch_ge_sda_names.py) is resumable and re-runnable to extend the long tail. Verified: ბერიძე->30250, გიორგი(M)->193038, ნინო(F)->115528.

    Last verified 2026-06-27.

  • PSDA Georgia — popular given names 2020–20252025

    Public Service Development Agency (PSDA) / Ministry of Justice of Georgia. Counts: not recorded. given. 9 forms. 2020–2025. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    PSDA (სახელმწიფო სერვისების განვითარების სააგენტო, Ministry of Justice) holds civil registration name data but does not publish it directly. mshoblebi.ge files annual Freedom of Information (საჯარო ინფორმაცია) requests and publishes the data. 2025 data: PSDA published top-5 themselves on 2025-12-24 for the first time. 6-year comparison article (published 2026-03-02) covers top 9-20 names per sex per year. Names in Georgian script (Mkhedruli) with national romanization. Top 2020 M: Giorgi (1,280); top 2020 F: Mariami (1,660). Top 2025 M: Aleksandre (691); top 2025 F: Nitsa (640, partial year). 90 rows, 2020-2025.

    Last verified 2026-05-12.

  • This page contains statistical information about population and demographics from the National Statistics Office of Geor2026not a population count

    www.geostat.ge. Counts: not recorded. given and surname. 1 forms. 2026. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page contains statistical information about population and demographics from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

  • The page provides data on Georgian surnames and first names, published by a name database.2023not a population count

    census.name. Counts: residents. given and surname. 11 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page provides data on Georgian surnames and first names, published by a name database.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

  • A list of top 100 names in Georgia, published on Students of the World.2023not a population count

    studentsoftheworld.info. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. A list of top 100 names in Georgia, published on Students of the World.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

  • A guide to the most popular Georgian names for boys, published on Tour Guide Georgia.not a population count

    tourguide.ge. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Tour Guide Georgia (tourism site) list of popular Georgian boy names; 10-row parquet has count=1 for all entries (binary list: გიორგი/Giorgi, დავით/David, ზურაბ/Zurabi...) — tourism editorial, not frequency data. Preferred source is ge-psda-mshoblebi with actual counts.

    Last verified 2026-05-12.

  • This page from the Augusta Chronicle outlines the most popular baby names in Georgia based on data from the Social Secur2024not a population count

    www.augustachronicle.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2024. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page from the Augusta Chronicle outlines the most popular baby names in Georgia based on data from the Social Security Administration.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Georgia?
Გიორგი, according to Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), with 193,037 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Georgia?
Ბერიძე, according to Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), with 30,250 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Georgia?
Because they count different people. Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Გიორგი. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Nino. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Georgia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/GE (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API).