Gheorghe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡor̪ɡe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gheorghe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- MDMoldova1 in 85(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 177
- ESSpain1 in 8.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gheorghe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georgi Plekhanovb. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian philosopher (1856–1918)
- Georgy Lvovb. 1861DEnot in their usual nameRussian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)
- George Gurdjieffb. 1866AMnot in their usual namephilosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
- George Gaponb. 1870UAnot in their usual nameRussian priest (1870-1906)
- Georgi Dimitrovb. 1882BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician (1882–1949)
- Georgy Zhukovb. 1896RUnot in their usual nameMarshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1974)
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dejb. 1901RO47th Prime Minister of Romania (1952-1955)
- Georgy Malenkovb. 1902RUnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1902–1988)
- Gheorghe Hagib. 1965RORomanian association football player and manager
- Giorgi Kvirikashvilib. 1967GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2022 | 436K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2022 | 436K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 40K | #23 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.1K | #359 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.8K | #799 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 91 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 6 | #1,247 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gheorghe mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gheorghe?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡor̪ɡe/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Gheorghe a male or female name?
- Gheorghe is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Gheorghe?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gheorghe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Gheorghe in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gheorghe.
- Where is Gheorghe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gheorghe is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 85 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gheorghe?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 39,504 people named Gheorghe, about 1 in 85 residents.
- How common is Gheorghe compared with other names?
- In Romania, Gheorghe is the 11th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gheorgheThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gheorghe” — the 11th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.