Other Language Variants
The name of George has variants in scores of other languages:
- Albanian: Gjergj, Jorgo
- Amharic: ጊዮርጊስ (Giorgis)
- Arabic: جرج (Jurj), جرجس (Jurjus), جورج (George), خضر (Khodor)
- Aragonese: Chorche
- Armenian: Գեվ (Gev), Գեվոր (Gevor), Գեվորգ (Gevorg), Գեւորգ (Kevork)
- Asturian: Xurde
- Basque: Gorka
- Belarusian: Юры (Jury or Yury), Юрка (Jurka or Yurka)
- Breton: Jord, Jorj
- Bulgarian: Георги (Gеоrgi)
- Catalan: Jordi
- Czech: Jiří, Jirka
- Croatian: Juraj, Jurica, Jure, Đuro
- Danish: Georg, Jørgen, Jørn
- Dutch: Joris, Sjors
- Frisian: Jurjen
- Esperanto: Georgo
- Estonian: Georg, Jüri
- Faroese: Jørundur
- Finnish: Yrjö, Yrjänä, Jori, Jyri, Jyrki
- French: Georges
- Galician: Xurxo
- Georgian: გიორგი (Giorgi), გიო (Gio)
- German: Georg, Gorch, Jörgen/Jörg, Jürgen/Jürg
- Greek: Γεώργιος (Georgios), Γιώργος (Giorgos), Γεωργία (Georgia)
- Hungarian: György
- Irish: Seóirse
- Italian: Giorgio
- Latin: Georgius
- Latvian: Jurģis, Juris
- Lithuanian: Jurgis
- Macedonian: Ѓорѓи (Gjorgji), Ѓорѓе (Gjorgje), Ѓорѓија (Gjorgjija), Ѓоко (Gjoko)
- Malayalam: ഗീവര്ഗീസ് (Geevarghese), Varghese, Varkey
- Maltese: Ġorġ, Ġorġa
- Monegasque: Giorgi
- Norman: Jore
- Norwegian: Georg, Jørn, Ørjan, Jørgen
- Polish: Jerzy
- Portuguese: Jorge
- Romanian: George with soft g's and Gheorghe (with hard g's)
- Russian: Георгий (Georgy), Юрий (Yury/Yuri), Егор (Yegor/Egor)
- Scottish Gaelic: Seòrsa, Deòrsa
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: Ђорђе, Ђорђо, Ђорђа, Ђурађ, Ђоко, Ђока
- Latin: Đorđe, Đorđo, Đorđa, Đurađ, Đoko, Đoka
- Slovak: Juraj
- Slovene: Jurij, Jure
- Spanish: Jorge
- Swedish: Göran, Jörgen, Örjan, Jörn, Georg
- Tigrinya: Gergish
- Ukrainian: Юрій (Yury/Yuri), Георгій (Heorhiy)
- Venetian: Giorgio
- Volapük: Jüri
- Welsh: Sior
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