Jorja
Feminine · “farmer”
Jorja is Georgia spelled as it sounds. Underneath is a Greek word about working the ground — one of the plainest and oldest meanings any name carries.
How old is the name Jorja?
Jorja first appears in US birth records in 1942 — 83 years ago. The typical Jorja alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 2,800 people named Jorja are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jorja most popular?
Jorja peaked in 2006, reaching #976 nationally. Today it ranks #3167, 2,191 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From georgos to Jorja
The story of Jorja
George was one of the great Christian names of medieval Europe, and Georgia is its Latin feminine, in English use since the eighteenth century. The Jorja spelling is a twentieth-century phonetic rewriting of the same name, of the kind English has always allowed for a name whose spelling and sound have drifted apart. It is used in Britain, Australia and the United States, and it keeps every sound of Georgia while losing the silent letters.
Meaning
farmer, worker of the earth
From Greek georgos, built on the words for earth and for work; the name Georgios was carried by a soldier-saint whose cult spread across Europe.
How the name formed
- georgos
- Georgios
- Georgia
- Jorja
Related forms: Georgia · Giorgia · Georgia · Georgette
Pronouncing Jorja
JOR-jah
Two syllables, first stressed. Identical in sound to Georgia.
Nicknames for Jorja
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1942
- Most girls named
- 2007246 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #976reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- +25.0%50 in 2025, from 40
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jorja in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Georgia in English — spelling variant
- Giorgia in Italian — same name
- Georgia in Greek — same name
- Georgette in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Texas, California.
Jorjas among us
people named Jorja are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,145 born in 2025 was named Jorja
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jorja's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shira climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shira's path sketches the road Jorja is walking now.
Jorja sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jorja is headed
Jorja should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jorja beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jorja in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spelling does exactly what it says, so it is never mispronounced.
- A settled Greek meaning with a very long documented record behind the sound.
- Georgia is familiar everywhere, so the name is never opaque.
- Georgia is the standard spelling and will be written for her on nearly every form.
- The phonetic respelling reads as informal to some people.
- The American state and the country both share the sound, and both will be mentioned.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jorjas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,800 people named Jorja are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jorja in 2025?
- Jorja ranks #3167 among US girl names in 2025, with 50 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jorja?
- About 1 in every 32,145 US girls born in 2025 was named Jorja — 50 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jorja with classmates?
- Jorja will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jorja
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