Given name & surname · also Latin
Georgs
Georgs is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Georgs comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Georgs developed from the Ancient Greek form Γεώργιος.
Georgs’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Georgs shares a linguistic root with the English form George. In Latvian usage, Georgs has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge. In Latvian usage, Georgs has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Jerzy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Georgs has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Georgs comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Georgs
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Similar names
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Georgius
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Genís
“source, origin; birth”
>99% boys
Gordias
Gordias is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in French.
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Gordius
Gordius is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latin.
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Genadijs
“noble”
>99% boys
Gascoigne
“Basques, Gascons”
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