Jurgen

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Jürgen is a German subsidiary form of the male given name Georg - dedications to Saint George can therefore also be found under St. Jürgen .

distribution

The popularity of the name Jürgen rose sharply from the beginning of the 1910s. From the mid-thirties to the late fifties, the name was consistently one of the ten most given boy names. Then its popularity began slowly at first, to decline significantly from the mid-1970s. Today hardly any boys are called Jürgen.

Jürgen was also known in earlier centuries. The name seems to be a variation of Georg, which became "modern" again in the 20th century. The year 1848 can be seen as the earliest occurrence. On December 26, 1848, Albert Lortzing , composer and lyricist of numerous comic operas that were very popular at the time ( Zar and Zimmermann , Der Wildschütz ) wrote in a letter to a friend about the director of the bankrupt Theater an der Wien : “Jürgen is mine don't worry, etc. ”. Lortzing quotes a poem by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, who was also very popular at the time, The dying father : "I am not afraid of Görgen / he gets away with his stupidity". It is instructive how the word “fort” is understood here (see “progress”) and how “Jürgen” is used as the northern variant of “Georg” in this first mention.

variants

Among the numerous variants and forms of language, Hans-Jürgen is the most commonly encountered double form .

The Polish equivalent of the name is Jerzy .

name day

Name day is April 23 (see Georg ).

Name bearer

First name

Middle name and double name

Surname

See also

Wiktionary: Jürgen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

swell

  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"