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Georg
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English
Etymology
From en da,et,fo,de,is,no,sv Georg, from en la Geōrgius. The slang sense is from en Spiders Georg.
Proper noun
s
en male, a Scandinavian and continental Germanic variant of en George.
en 2011-07-01 Eric Flint Ring of Fire III Baen Publishing Enterprises 9781618248176 “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.”
en 2013-12-20 Elizabeth D. Michaels; Anita Stansfield Behind the Mask White Star Press 9781939203359 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.”
en given names.
en Internet slang A notional individual who has, eats, or does an extremely large number of a specified thing, skewing statistical averages.
en June 30 2019 Christopher Weston https://web.archive.org/web/20240110061942/https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/08/06/30-50-feral-hogs-meme-twitter-memes-explained/ Feral hogs meme: 30-50 hilarious responses on Twitter! “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”
en 2021-08-23 Katrin Tiidenberg; Crystal Abidin; Natalie Ann Hendry Tumblr John Wiley & Sons 9781509541102 [...] a tumblr user commented on a broadly circulated myth that an average person swallows eight spiders a year, saying that the factoid is based on a statistical error, because "an average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted." The post's popularity led to the setting up of a Spiders-Georg tumblr blog (Knowyourmeme 2020a), and became memorialized [...] 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."
en 2022 Randall Munroe What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers... 54 9781399811149 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 40313th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 543 individuals. Georg is most common among White (91.53%) individuals.
Further reading
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da male George
Related terms
da Jørgen, da Jørn.
Estonian
Etymology
From the et de - and Scandinavian equivalent of en George.
Proper noun
et proper noun
et male
Related terms
et Jürgen, et Jürjo, et Jüri, et Jürnas, et Ürjo
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun m
fo male
Usage notes
m Georgsson Georgsdóttir
Declension
Georg Georg Georg, Georgi Georgs
German
Etymology
de Presumably a later borrowing than what led to de Jörg and de Jürgen?
Pronunciation
de /ˈɡeː.ɔrk/ [-ɔʁk] [-ɔɐ̯k] [-ɔ(ː)k]
de /ˈɡeː.ɔrç/ [-ɔʁç] [-ɔɐ̯ç] [-ɔ(ː)ç] [-ɔʏ̯ç] northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial
de De-Georg.ogg
de De-Georg2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de male George
Related terms
de Jörg,Jürgen Jürg<qq:Switzerland> Jorn,Jörn<qq:Northern German> Schorsch<ll:Austria><qq:Southern German, Central German, Bavaria, Hesse, Swabia> Schurl,Schurli<qq:Vienna> Gorgel,Görries,Görris,Girgel<ll:Austria> Gorch<qq:Low German>
Descendants
1 et Georg
zh 格奧爾格 1
Icelandic
Proper noun
@@
is male George
Declension
m.dat-
Related terms
is Goggi
Norwegian Bokmål
no Georg
Etymology
nb la Georgius, from nb grc Γεώργιος Geṓrgios, from nb grc γεωργός geōrgós farmer, from nb grc γῆ gê earth + nb grc ἔργον érgon work. nb Jørgen male given name Jørn male given name.
Compare da Georg, sv Georg, de Georg, en George and nn Georg male given name.
Pronunciation
nb /ˈɡeː.ɔrɡ/
nb eːɔrɡ 2
nb Ge org
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb male Latin < Ancient Greek George
Usage notes
The Norwegian name day for nb Georg is 23 April, shared with nb Jørgen and nb Jørn.
nb Georg had its main period of popularity in Norway around 1900, especially in nb Kristiania and nb Bergen.
Derived terms
nb Georgia<t:female given name> Georgina<t:female given name> Georgine<t:female given name> Georgsen<t:patronymic surname> Georgsdatter<t:patronymic surname> 0
Statistics
According to Statistics Norway, 2,558 people in Norway had nb Georg as their sole or first given name as of 31 December 2025.“10501: Personer, etter år og fornavn”, Statistics Norway.
References
“Georg”, Store norske leksikon.
Kristoffer Kruken and Ola Stemshaug (1995), Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN.
“Navn”, Statistics Norway.
Swedish
Etymology
sv gmq-osw Georgius.
Pronunciation
sv /ˈjeːɔrj/
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Georg.wav
Proper noun
c
sv male George
Related terms
sv Göran, sv Jöran, sv Jörgen, sv Jörn, sv Örjan
Descendants
1 fi Jori
Anagrams
sv eggor geogr.