Entry № 3603 · Greek origin

Georgia Georgia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOR-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Farmer, earth worker"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Greek)

A name that means "farmer, earth worker".

Georgia is the feminine of George — from the Greek geōrgós (γεωργός), meaning "farmer" or "earth worker." The U.S.

Georgia has been continuously in the U.S. top 500 for over a century. Today Georgia sits in the U.S. top 250 and is climbing.

Farmer in Greek. Georgia O'Keeffe's name.

The name in its native script.

Γεωργία
Transliteration
Geōrgía
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɔːr.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Georgia stands.

Georgia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Georgias before her.

Real people
Georgia O'Keeffe
American modernist painter.
1887 – 1986
Georgia Hardstark
American podcaster, My Favorite Murder.
born 1980
In fiction
Georgia
Hoagy Carmichael's 1930 song "Georgia on My Mind."
1930 song

Names connected to Georgia.

The number behind Georgia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Georgia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.