Where the George name comes from

George goes back to the Ancient Greek name Georgios, built on georgos, meaning a farmer or earth worker. That word joins ge, earth, with ergon, work. It was the name of an early saint, and it passed through Latin Georgius into Middle English as George.

The surname George has English, French, Irish, Middle Eastern Christian, Native American, South Indian Christian and Welsh origins. As an English and Welsh surname, George originated as a patronymic, and the French surname George originated as a patronymic too. The German form is Georg. As a surname from Irish, George is an anglicization of Seoirse.