Jerzy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old Czech [in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English George (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈjɛ.ʐɘ/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Jerzy is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 222,479 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 172(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 5.5K
- SESweden1 in 9.7K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 172 (inferred from the name graph)
222,479 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Jerzy
- Polish:/ˈjɛ.ʐɘ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Czech[in(measured from records)
- AncientGreek](measured from records)
a male given name from Old Czech [in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English George
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jerzy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #20 | 222,479 | 1 in 172 | 230K | Jerzy | 197 |
| US United States | — | 2,972 | 1 in 112K | 2.8K | Jerzy | 250 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,056 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.1K | Jerzy | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 74K | listed | Jerzy | 96 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 1 | Jerzy | 76 |
| NO Norway | — | 422 | 1 in 13K | 1.2K | Jerzy | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 134 | 1 in 44K | 134 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 64 | 1 in 5.5K | 64 | — | 1 |
222,479 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Jerzy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Jerzy är en polsk form av → Georg. En känd namnbärare är den polsk-svenske läkaren och författaren Jerzy Einhorn (1925–2000).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Polish form of GEORGE . Pet form: Jurek .
as a word
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)- Jerzy Kosińskib. 1933USPolish-American novelist
- Jerzy Kukuczkab. 1948PLPolish alpine and high-altitude climber (1948–1989)
- Jerzy Dudekb. 1973PLPolish association football player (born 1973)
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)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jerzy a male or female name?
- Jerzy is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- What does the name Jerzy mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Czech [in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English George Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jerzy?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jerzy?
- In Polish /ˈjɛ.ʐɘ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Jerzy?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 222 thousand people named Jerzy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerzy. After it come United States, Sweden, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jerzy most common?
- Jerzy is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 172 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jerzy?
- In Poland, the national register counted 222,479 people named Jerzy in 2026, about 1 in 172 residents.
- How common is Jerzy compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jerzy is the 20th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jerzy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jerzyThe 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, “Jerzy” — ranked 27th in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.