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Jurgen

Gender
Boy
Say it
YUR-gen
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#9,710 for boys

Jurgen is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “farmer, earth-worker”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Jurgen mean?

Greek: unaccented spelling of German Jürgen, a form of George

“farmer, earth-worker”

Jürgen is the North German form of George, from Greek georgos 'farmer'.

Is Jurgen a girl's or a boy's name?

Jurgen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jurgen in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 3 boys.

1998Busiest: 3 in 19982024
Jurgen in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20243#5,198
20230–
20221#6,413
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20093#4,691
20083#4,615
20070–
20060–
20053#3,992
20040–
20031#4,616
20023#3,325
20010–
20000–
19990–
19983#3,021

How popular is Jurgen in the US?

Rank in 2025
9,710th among boys
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Jurgen, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 1932.

Half of all the boys named Jurgen in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1932Busiest: 24 in 20152025
Jurgen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20247#9,888
20230–
202219#5,015
20219#8,161
20207#9,548
20199#8,209
201810#7,613
201712#6,681
201617#5,314
201524#4,177
201411#7,043
20139#8,113
20128#8,858
201113#6,250
201010#7,585
20096#10,989
20087#9,864
20077#9,782
200613#6,090
20057#9,108
20040–
20039#7,238
200210#6,515
200112#5,660
20008#7,409
199913#5,029
199812#5,153
199711#5,282
19966#7,964
19950–
199415#4,088
19935#8,693
199211#4,864
19910–
199010#4,986
19895#7,898
19888#5,194
19877#5,453
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19758#3,939
19740–
19730–
19726#4,438
19715#4,905
197012#2,738
19690–
19689#2,906
19676#3,557
19665#3,946
19658#2,980
19640–
196310#2,672
19620–
19615#4,063
19605#4,036
19590–
19585#3,942
19570–
19567#3,214
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19430–
19420–
19410–
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19325#3,774

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jurgen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jurgen, updated 20 October 2026.