Georg

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Georg (plural Georgs)

1. A male given name, a Scandinavian and continental Germanic variant of George.
   • 2011 July 1, Eric Flint, Ring of Fire III, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

     “Ah!” Georg said, noncommittal. “A problem I think you may have had,” the man said. “I got drunk and didn't wake up.” “Yes,” Georg said. “I've been known to do that. Last night, in fact. And the night before.”

   • 2013 December 20, Elizabeth D. Michaels, Anita Stansfield, Behind the Mask, White Star Press, →ISBN:

     Georg said nothing as he glanced toward Cameron, who stuck his head over the edge of the loft again. “Rest easy, Georg,” Cameron said. “Next week I'll be on my honeymoon, and your worries will be over.”

2. A surname transferred from the given name.
3. (Internet slang) A notional individual who has, eats, or does an extremely large number of a specified thing, skewing statistical averages.
   • 2019 June 30, Christopher Weston, Feral hogs meme: 30-50 hilarious responses on Twitter!‎^[1]:

     “Average yard has 8 feral hogs” factoid actualy just statistical error. average yard has 0 hogs. hogs georg, who lives in rural america and whose yard has 30–50 hogs within 3–5 minutes of his small kids playing, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”

   • 2021 August 23, Katrin Tiidenberg, Crystal Abidin, Natalie Ann Hendry, Tumblr, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     […] a now-deactivated blog posted: "according to USA Today, the average tumblr user spends 2.5 hours a month on tumblr," […] "the average person spends 0 hours per month. We Georg, who live in caves & spend over 23 hours on tumblr each day, are outliers and should not have been counted."

   • 2022, Randall Munroe, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers..., page 54:

     I'm pretty sure the world doesn't produce [enough bananas to] eat six bananas a day [...] Unless there's one person out there who eats so many bananas that they throw off the global average. / [image] / BANANAS GEORG, WHO LIVES ON A MOUNTAIN AND EATS 17 TRILLION BANANAS PER YEAR, IS AN OUTLIER AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN COUNTED.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Georg is the 40313^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 543 individuals. Georg is most common among White (91.53%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Georg”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31.

Danish

Proper noun

Georg

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Related terms

• Jørgen, Jørn.

Estonian

Etymology

From the German and Scandinavian equivalent of English George.

Proper noun

Georg

1. a male given name

Related terms

• Jürgen, Jürjo, Jüri, Jürnas, Ürjo

Faroese

Proper noun

Georg m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Georg: Georgsson
• daughter of Georg: Georgsdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Georg
Accusative	Georg
Dative	Georg, Georgi
Genitive	Georgs

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː.ɔrk/, [-ɔʁk], [-ɔɐ̯k], [-ɔ(ː)k]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː.ɔrç/, [-ɔʁç], [-ɔɐ̯ç], [-ɔ(ː)ç], [-ɔʏ̯ç] (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)

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Proper noun

Georg

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Related terms

• Jörg, Jürgen
• Jürg (Switzerland)
• Jorn, Jörn (Northern German)
• Schorsch (Southern German, Central German, Austria, Bavaria, Hesse, Swabia)
• Schurl, Schurli (Vienna)
• Gorgel, Görries, Görris, Girgel (Austria)
• Gorch (Low German)

Descendants

• → Estonian: Georg
• → Chinese: → 格奧爾格／格奥尔格 (Gé'ào'ěrgé) (transliteration)

Icelandic

Proper noun

Georg m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Declension

declension of Georg

m-s1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Georg
accusative	Georg
dative	Georg
genitive	Georgs

Related terms

• Goggi

Norwegian

Proper noun

Georg

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Related terms

• Gøran, Jørgen, Jørn, Ørjan

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish Georgius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeːɔrj/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Georg c (genitive Georgs)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Related terms

• Göran, Jöran, Jörgen, Jörn, Örjan

Descendants

• → Finnish: Jori

Anagrams

• geogr.