Jora
Jora was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,485 among girls’ names; 141 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jora?
#12,485 among girls’ names, 2025
Jora rose from #13,661 in 2015 to #12,485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
14 babies in 2023, the peak
Jora peaked in 2023, when 14 babies were given it (9 girls, #10,692 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,485 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,692 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,388 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,586 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,653 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,658 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,768 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,661 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,697 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,348 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #12,094 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,037 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,262 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,806 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,253 | 6.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,059 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,115 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,602 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 141 Americans recorded as Jora, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jora, and how old are they?
An estimated 139 Americans named Jora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 5 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 278 people named Jora (163 women and girls, 115 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,665 babies since 1880, Jora is the fifth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 177 babies (4.0%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jora and names like it
- Compare Jora and JoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJora peaked in 2023.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.