Giorgio is a distinctive choice, ranked #1076 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Giorgio in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1076
About the Name Giorgio
Giorgio has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 220 places in five years. It was most popular in 1998 at #738 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Giorgio is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Giorgio
Unlikely. With around 27 UK babies named Giorgio per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Giorgio in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Giorgio has been declining in UK popularity, dropping 220 places in the last five years. Its peak was #738 in 1998. Choosing it now means he is likely to be among the last of his generation with this name.
Giorgio is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Giorgio include: Giorgio Piantanida — Giorgio Piantanida is an Italian retired alpine skier.; Giorgio Scalvini — Giorgio Scalvini is an Italian professional footballer who plays as centre-back for Serie A club Atalanta and the Italy national team.; Giorgio Chiellini — Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or left-back..
Giorgio does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Giorgios in the wild.
27
UK babies named Giorgio (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 220 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
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In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Giorgio
Likely around 1 other Giorgio in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Giorgio
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman. With the collaboration of official diplomats, he posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps in eastern Europe.
Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or left-back. Considered one of the best Italian defenders of all time, Chiellini was known for his strength, aggressiveness, man-marking, and ability to play in either a three or four-man defense.
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈdʒordʒo moˈrɔːder], Austrian German: [mɔˈroːdɐ]; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and record producer. Dubbed the "Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music.
Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densities, obtained with Guido Altarelli, known as the Altarelli–Parisi or DGLAP equations, the exact solution of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces, and the study of whirling flocks of birds.
Giorgio Doria Pamphilj Landi was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Rome, Italy to the prominent Genoese family of Doria-Pamphili-Landi.
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born. Vasari was a Mannerist painter highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day but rather less so in later centuries.