Varghese
Origin
Syriac
Syllables
2
Peak era
1970s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“Kerala form of George (Greek georgos, farmer) via Syriac Gewargis and the fuller Malayalam Geevarghese; in the US diaspora it survives mostly as a surname, as in the writer Abraham Verghese, which makes it a deliberately heritage-forward given-name choice”
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1970s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Varghese peaked in the 1970s.
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