Jori
Jori is given to both girls and boys: 62 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,762 among girls’ names and #7,397 among boys’, #4,369 among all names counting both); 2,473 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Jori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 15 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jori mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Jori is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “George” (Georg).
Phonetic rendering of Swedish Georg (“George”). Also recorded as a pet form of Jorma.
/ˈjori/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jori?
#2,762 among girls’ names, 2025
Jori rose from #4,443 in 2015 to #2,762 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 38.6 per million.
80 babies in 1995, the peak
Jori peaked in 1995, when 80 babies were given it (72 girls, #1,925 among girls’ names). The 73 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,762 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,784 | 24.7 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,318 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,673 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,839 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,808 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,217 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,707 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,881 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,580 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,443 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,540 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,695 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,784 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,406 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,503 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,615 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,397 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,404 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,106 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,413 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,214 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,624 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,214 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,609 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,132 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,066 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,379 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,789 | 25.3 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,864 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,925 | 40.9 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,298 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,688 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,160 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,035 | 35.7 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,310 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,947 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,756 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,367 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,804 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,116 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,749 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,875 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,861 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,882 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,655 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,958 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,553 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,531 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,455 | 22.5 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,836 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,613 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,073 | 26.7 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,545 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,629 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,281 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,666 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,667 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,097 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,883 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,634 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,430 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,116 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,350 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,706 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,028 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,807 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,055 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,087 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,584 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,913 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,589 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,328 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,654 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,473 Americans recorded as Jori, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jori, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,473 Americans ever recorded as Jori. The median Jori alive today is 31 years old; half are between 15 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,063 people named Jori (1,861 women and girls, 202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 133 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 389 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 718 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 604 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 541 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jori born?
The states with the most babies named Jori are Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 8 | #1,136 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #642 | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 7 | #405 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,323 | 3.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,539 | 0.2× |
Where Jori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jori is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1950 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jori with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,299 babies since 1880, Jori is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 207 babies (35%), again the 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 Jori
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 Jori and names like it
- Compare Jori and JorieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJori peaked in 1995.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jori since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jori: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Jori.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jori alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.