Jory
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 81.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 113 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,223since 1947
Jory over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #3,240 | 35 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #2,783 | 43 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,114 | 36 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #3,531 | 30 |
| 2009 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #3,227 | 33 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #2,953 | 34 |
| 2003 | — | #3,044 | 31 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,603 | 37 |
| 2001 | — | #2,489 | 39 | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #1,924 | 54 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,140 | 44 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #1,725 | 54 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,256 | 86 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #1,275 | 84 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #1,238 | 84 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #1,097 | 100 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 | #963 | 122 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #995 | 112 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #916 | 123 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #865 | 120 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #893 | 110 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | #995 | 86 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #975 | 87 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #1,012 | 77 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #1,088 | 67 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,031 | 77 |
| 1981 | — | #1,334 | 49 | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,214 | 57 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #1,352 | 46 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #1,335 | 46 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #1,123 | 57 |
| 1975 | — | #1,000 | 67 | |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | #1,099 | 56 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | #753 | 113 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #2,158 | 18 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #1,939 | 21 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,962 | 17 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #1,876 | 19 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | #1,858 | 19 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | #1,953 | 17 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | #1,837 | 19 |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,219 | 13 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,904 | 16 | |
| 1950 | #3,052 | 12 | #960 | 52 |
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| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jory! It came in at #3,733, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jory is popular in 1950
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#433 · 1 in 11,109
- Illinois#524 · 1 in 15,454
- New York#580 · 1 in 21,549
Best ever in a state: #96 in Wyoming, 1973.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #433 | 7 | 1 in 11,109 |
| Illinois | #524 | 6 | 1 in 15,454 |
| New York | #580 | 7 | 1 in 21,549 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jory
- 2,718 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #4,539)
- 502 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #4,539)
- 1,240 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #4,539)
- Biggest jump: 1,405 spots in 1973 (#2,158 → #753)
- Biggest drop: 944 spots in 1951 (#960 → #1,904)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1973 at #753 (113 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1985–1991
- Highest: 1 in 13,793 boys born in 1973 were named Jory (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.5% of all boys named Jory (853) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 12 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,372 |
| 1950s | 165 | #960 (1950) | #2,269 |
| 1960s | 127 | #1,858 (1960) | #2,511 |
| 1970s | 477 | #753 (1973) | #1,476 |
| 1980s | 853 | #865 (1988) | #1,032 |
| 1990s | 787 | #963 (1991) | #1,445 |
| 2000s | 361 | #1,924 (2000) | #2,956 |
| 2010s | 314 | #2,783 (2016) | #3,582 |
| 2020s | 127 | #4,011 (2021) | #4,877 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jory in 1950
Top girls' names in 1950
Top boys' names in 1950
More about 1950
girls
1,713,054 girls got a published name in 1950; 1 in 142,755 of them was named Jory, which outranked 50.0% of the 6,109 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,909Youlanda13
- #2,909Zenaida13
- #2,909Zoraida13
- #3,052Jory12
- #3,052Aleen12
- #3,052Aloha12
- #3,052Alona12
- #3,235Acquanetta11
- #3,235Adair11
- #3,235Albina11
Tied with 182 names at #3,052; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,790,262 boys got a published name in 1950; 1 in 34,428 of them was named Jory, which outranked 77.1% of the 4,196 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).