The Sorge surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,887 people carried this name — #15,508 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 156,300 people counted. That is up 14% from 1,660 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Sorge surname
From the Italianization of the Sicilian surname Surgi, derived from surgi (“mouse”), dialectal variant of surci.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Sorge» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 94 people named Sorge live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 54 people named Sorge.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Gironde.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
38 people named Sorge live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
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 print
Sorge in American newspapers,
1911–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 100,701 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Sorge,
with a public archive behind them.
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Georg Andreas Sorge 1703–1778 · composer -
Friedrich Sorge 1828–1906 · writer -
Friedrich Sorge 1828–1906 · writer
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Kurt Sorge 1855–1928 · engineer -
Giuseppe Sorge 1857–1937 · historian -
Gustavo Sorge d. 1999 · rower
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sorge.
- Sordelet 193 · U.S. census
- Sordello 120 · U.S. census
- Sordi 160 · U.S. census
- Sorel 649 · U.S. census
- Sorensen 28,069 · U.S. census
- Sorg 2,903 · U.S. census
- Soria 14,477 · U.S. census
- Soriano 25,916 · U.S. census
- Sorin 280 · U.S. census
- Soro 323 · U.S. census
- Soroka 1,478 · U.S. census
- Sorondo 228 · U.S. census
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