Georg

Meaning

Georg is a continental form of George, from Greek Georgios, “husbandman” or “farmer.” In the excerpted 19th-century sources, it is explicitly glossed as “husbandman” and shown as used in German and Danish, with the name spreading through European Christian naming traditions.

Origin

Fun fact

Yonge notes that Georg was long less common in England, but later spread more widely through royal and historical influence.