Meaning not yet researched.
Jory: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #755 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #755 in 1973; #4,614 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Jory in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,614 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #755.
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Jory: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #755 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 123 (1989).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Jory, making it the 4,614th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,875 places from #7,489 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 11 boys named Jory in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #755, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 123, in 1989. For comparison, it was #3,327 in 2015 and #966 in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Jory, making it the 10,471st most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,396 places from #7,075 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 16 girls named Jory in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,147, reached in 1950. The most girls given the name in a single year was 38, in 2018. For comparison, it was #6,335 in 2015 and #3,147 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jory in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 3,943 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 941 babies named Jory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 256 US boys were named Jory; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jori (2,473 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jorie, Joury and Jorey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jorie (1,358), Joury (282), Jorey (263), Jouri (248), Jury (129), Joory (76), Joree (39), Joori (13), Joria (11), Jorri (10), Johary (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jory in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,471 | 22 | #4,614 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,075 | 11 | #7,489 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,840 | 26 | #4,164 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,809 | 24 | #4,365 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,525 | 26 | #4,065 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,467 | 18 | #5,133 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,296 | 16 | #5,679 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,885 | 35 | #3,268 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,950 | 35 | #3,280 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,069 | 43 | #2,812 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,335 | 34 | #3,327 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,843 | 26 | #3,957 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,286 | 26 | #3,906 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,038 | 33 | #3,331 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,707 | 36 | #3,137 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,889 | 30 | #3,581 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,785 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,148 | 36 | #3,191 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,254 | 28 | #3,740 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,266 | 33 | #3,271 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,765 | 25 | #3,770 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,473 | 34 | #2,986 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,073 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,588 | 37 | #2,617 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,510 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,777 | 54 | #1,933 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,853 | 44 | #2,150 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,248 | 51 | #1,913 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,376 | 50 | #1,870 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,903 | 54 | #1,727 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,091 | 86 | #1,260 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,162 | 84 | #1,277 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,070 | 84 | #1,241 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,588 | 100 | #1,100 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,573 | 122 | #965 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,938 | 112 | #998 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,722 | 123 | #917 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,442 | 120 | #867 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,638 | 110 | #893 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,297 | 86 | #997 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,845 | 87 | #979 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,339 | 77 | #1,017 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,530 | 67 | #1,090 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,218 | 77 | #1,036 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,350 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,707 | 57 | #1,219 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,886 | 38 | #1,549 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,237 | 46 | #1,362 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,883 | 46 | #1,349 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,907 | 57 | #1,134 |
| 1975 | — | — | 67 | #1,004 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,568 | 56 | #1,104 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,757 | 113 | #755 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,660 | 18 | #2,202 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,781 | 15 | #2,506 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,456 | 21 | #1,961 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,990 | 18 | #2,014 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,571 | 7 | #3,514 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,685 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,374 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,395 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,747 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,365 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #2,000 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,543 | 19 | #1,913 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,030 | 19 | #1,882 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,798 | 12 | #2,476 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,685 | 17 | #1,986 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,120 | 19 | #1,862 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,877 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,259 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,095 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,330 | 10 | #2,616 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,318 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,940 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,147 | 52 | #966 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,164 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,005 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).