Varghese
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
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Varghese has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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