Given name
Gjergj
“farmer”
Gjergj is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gjergj goes back to Ancient Greek γεωργός, meaning “farmer.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Gjergj developed from Γεωργός. Gjergj developed from Γεώργιος.
Gjergj’s family of names
Gjergj developed from the Ancient Greek form Γεωργός. Gjergj has a conventional equivalent in the English form George. Gjergj has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Jorge.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Gjergj has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gjergj
- Gjergj FishtaAlbanian writer (1871-1940)
- Gjergj ArianitiAlbanian nobleman1383–1461
- Gjergj XhuvaniAlbanian film director (1963–2019)
- Gjergj MetaAlbanian Roman Catholic bishopborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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