The Gheorghe surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 259 people carried this name — #74,608 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted. That is up 43% from 181 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 174 people named Gheorghe live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
140 people named Gheorghe live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 53 people named Gheorghe.
Most of them — 45 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
135 people named Gheorghe is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Gheorghe in American newspapers,
1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 269 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Gheorghe,
with a public archive behind them.
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Iliuță Rudăreanu 1889–1982 · singer -
Petre Gheorghe 1907–1943 · newspaper editor -
Ion Gheorghe 1935–2021 · poet -
Vilmoș Gheorghe 1941–2001 · biathlete -
Cornelia Gheorghe 1942– · basketball player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 89 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gheorghe.
- Geyer 7,962 · U.S. census
- Ghali 427 · U.S. census
- Ghanem 1,017 · U.S. census
- Ghazarian 965 · U.S. census
- Ghazi 664 · U.S. census
- Ghelfi 200 · U.S. census
- Gherardi 462 · U.S. census
- Gherardini 255 · U.S. census
- Ghersi 127 · U.S. census
- Ghesquiere 158 · U.S. census
- Ghezzi 375 · U.S. census
- Ghilardi 295 · U.S. census
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