Jorah
Jorah was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,891 among boys’ names; 354 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jorah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jorah?
#3,891 among boys’ names, 2025
Jorah rose from #6,496 in 2015 to #3,891 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 16.4 per million.
42 babies in 2019, the peak
Jorah peaked in 2019, when 42 babies were given it (35 boys, #3,295 among boys’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 28 | #3,891 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,584 | 21 | #4,784 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,693 | 19 | #5,149 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,372 | 25 | #4,229 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,787 | 30 | #3,689 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,214 | 35 | #3,237 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,052 | 35 | #3,295 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 30 | #3,656 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 22 | #4,526 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 11 | #7,364 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 13 | #6,496 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,144 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,521 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,229 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,259 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,388 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,391 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jorah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 354 Americans recorded as Jorah, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 28 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Jorah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jorah, and how old are they?
An estimated 351 Americans named Jorah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Jorah (114 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,560 babies since 1880, Jorah is the second most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 59 babies (47%), again the second 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 Jorah
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 Jorah and names like it
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