Jorja

Where Jorja comes from

The dictionaries list Jorja as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, a new Australian spelling of Georgia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,622 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Jorja Fox born
    American actress
  3. 1997
    Jorja Smith born
    British singer, songwriter and musician
  4. 2006
    Peak, #976
    267 babies named Jorja — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,668.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, a new Australian spelling of Georgia.
Namesakes
  • Jorja Fox · American actress, born 1968
  • Jorja Smith · British singer, songwriter and musician, born 1997
  • Jorja Miller · New Zealand rugby union player, born 2004
  • Jorja Fox · English footballer, born 2003
  • Jorja Fleezanis · American violinist, 1952–2022

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.