It's so cool that Geordie sounds exactly identical to Catalan Jordi, which also means George. On the one hand, duh, but on a second thought what are the odds of two names evolving independently into the same form in two distant languages and nowhere else?
― Anonymous User 11/19/2024
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Geordie Greep (born August 20, 1999) is an English singer-songwriter and former member of the prog-rock group Black Midi.
I have heard Jordie used widely in the U.S. as a nickname for Jordan for both males & females so Geordie may be mistaken as a nickname for Jordan sometimes.
My son’s given name is Geordie after his great grandfather from Northumberland. Wish I had named him George and then we just called him Geordie as his nickname. He was an athlete in high school and every announcer pronounced his name with a hard G. Like Gordie. When he went off to college I said let’s change your name to George and just call you Geordie. But he didn’t wanna do that. Today is his birthday. February 7. He does look like a Geordie. Not a George.
Actually, the character on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' (and the associated movies) is named Geordi La Forge (note the differences in spelling). http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge.
I have a brother with this as his given name. He loves the name, but he has spent his entire life annoyed with people who not only assume his name is really Jordan but try to call him Jordan. (He doesn't answer them, pretends he doesn't know who they mean.)
― Anonymous User 6/23/2015
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The titular character of the 1955 film, 'Wee Geordie', is a Scottish Olympic hammer-thrower.