Jory
Jory is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,467 among girls’ names and #4,613 among boys’, #7,786 among all names counting both); 3,943 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,690 Americans named Jory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jory is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jory?
#4,613 among boys’ names, 2025
Jory fell from #3,326 in 2015 to #4,613 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 12.9 per million.
152 babies in 1991, the peak
Jory peaked in 1991, when 152 babies were given it (122 boys, #960 among boys’ names). The 31 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,467 | 22 | #4,613 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,071 | 11 | #7,484 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,835 | 26 | #4,160 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,804 | 24 | #4,361 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,520 | 26 | #4,061 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,463 | 18 | #5,129 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,295 | 16 | #5,674 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,884 | 35 | #3,265 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,949 | 35 | #3,278 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,067 | 43 | #2,811 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,333 | 34 | #3,326 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,841 | 26 | #3,954 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,281 | 26 | #3,904 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,033 | 33 | #3,328 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,699 | 36 | #3,136 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,882 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 44 | #2,784 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,143 | 36 | #3,189 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,250 | 28 | #3,738 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,261 | 33 | #3,269 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,760 | 25 | #3,766 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,468 | 34 | #2,982 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 31 | #3,069 | |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,582 | 37 | #2,613 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 39 | #2,505 | |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,769 | 54 | #1,929 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,846 | 44 | #2,147 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,242 | 51 | #1,910 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,371 | 50 | #1,867 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,898 | 54 | #1,724 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,086 | 86 | #1,255 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,156 | 84 | #1,273 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,064 | 84 | #1,236 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,582 | 100 | #1,096 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,567 | 122 | #960 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,931 | 112 | #994 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,716 | 123 | #914 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,437 | 120 | #866 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,633 | 110 | #892 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,294 | 86 | #996 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,840 | 87 | #978 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,338 | 77 | #1,016 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,527 | 67 | #1,090 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,214 | 77 | #1,036 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 49 | #1,350 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,706 | 57 | #1,219 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,883 | 38 | #1,549 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,235 | 46 | #1,362 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,881 | 46 | #1,349 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,905 | 57 | #1,134 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 67 | #1,004 | |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,567 | 56 | #1,104 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,755 | 113 | #755 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,658 | 18 | #2,202 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,779 | 15 | #2,505 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,455 | 21 | #1,960 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,988 | 18 | #2,013 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,569 | 7 | #3,513 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 10 | #2,684 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,373 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,394 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,746 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,364 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 17 | #1,999 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,542 | 19 | #1,912 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,029 | 19 | #1,881 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,797 | 12 | #2,475 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,684 | 17 | #1,985 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,119 | 19 | #1,861 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 9 | #2,876 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 13 | #2,258 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,094 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,329 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 1952 | under 5 | 12 | #2,317 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 16 | #1,939 | |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,146 | 52 | #965 |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,163 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #4,003 |
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 Jory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,943 Americans recorded as Jory, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jory, and how old are they?
3,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,943 Americans ever recorded as Jory. The median Jory alive today is 35 years old; half are between 21 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 3,159 people named Jory (575 women and girls, 2,584 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 604 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,540 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 718 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 614 |
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 Jory born?
The states with the most babies named Jory are Texas, California and Illinois, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 211 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 160 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 90 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 62 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 59 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 50 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 47 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 43 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 37 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jory 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,560 babies since 1880, Jory is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 59 babies (53%), 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 Jory
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 Jory and names like it
- Compare Jory and JorahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJory peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jory since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jory.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jory alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.