Jory — #7291 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jory

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,201 babies named Jory between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jory currently holds the #7291 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 123 babies received it in a single year. Jory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 712 additional births since 1950.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jory performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 853 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Jory shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 211 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jory in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jory in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,201 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.