Given name
Geordi
“farmer”·“one who works the earth”
Geordi is a variant of George. George’s Greek root means “farmer” or “one who works the earth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Geordi is a variant of George. George’s Greek root means “farmer” or “one who works the earth.”
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Where it comes from
Geordi is a variant of George. George reached English through Old French and Latin from the Greek name Georgios.
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How it developed
Geordi is a variant of George. The shared background comes through George: Georgios comes from georgos, built from elements meaning “earth” and “to work.” Latin Georgius and Old French forms helped carry it into English.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Geordi is a variant of George. The history of George gives this family its wider story. Saint George gave the name a religious and legendary association; the dragon story developed in the Middle Ages. In England, George I’s accession in 1714 helped increase the name’s use beyond its earlier saintly associations.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Geordi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 84 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1993.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geordi’s family of names
Geordi has a related form in George. In English usage, Geordi has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Geordi
Characters named Geordi: Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: The Next Generation and its feature films).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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