Jurgen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: German form of George; tiller of the soil (farmer)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jʊʁɡn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jurgen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 183(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 636
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jurgen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)
≈440,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jürgen in DE Germany, AT Austria and Juergen in TF French Southern Territories.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German form of George; tiller of the soil (farmer)
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jurgen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #13 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | — | Jürgen | 224 |
| AT Austria | #66 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 636 | 4.5K | Jürgen | 100 |
| BE Belgium | #159 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 33 | Jurgen | 119 |
| NL Netherlands | #294 | 5,980 | 1 in 2.9K | 6K | Jurgen | 105 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,138 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| TF French Southern Territories | #1 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 9 | — | Juergen | 1 |
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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jurgen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Misspelling of Jürgen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jürgen Mellinb. 1633SESwedish politician (1633-1713)
- DJ Jurgenb. 1967NLDutch DJ
- Jurgen Streppelb. 1969NLDutch footballer and manager
- Jurgen van den Goorberghb. 1969NLDutch motorcycle racer
- Jurgen Van de Walleb. 1977BEroad bicycle racer
- Jurgen Van Goolenb. 1980BEroad bicycle racer
- Jurgen Van Den Broeckb. 1983BEroad bicycle racer
- Jurgen Mattheijb. 1993NLDutch footballer
- Jurgen Degabrieleb. 1996MTassociation football player
- Jurgen Ekkelenkampb. 2000NLDutch association football player (born 2000)
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 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6K | #334 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.1K | #178 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 23 | #13,554 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Jurgen mean, and where does it come from?
- German form of George; tiller of the soil (farmer) Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Jurgen?
- A machine transcription gives /jʊʁɡn̩/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Jurgen a male or female name?
- Jurgen 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 Jurgen?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jurgen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 437 thousand people named Jurgen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jürgen.
- How common is the name Jurgen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,980 people named Jurgen, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Jurgen compared with other names?
- In Germany, Jurgen is the 13th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jurgen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jurgenThe 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, “Jurgen” — the 13th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.