Jory
Feminine · “Greek georgos”
Jory is given to both — 720 girls and 3,223 boys since 1880. See Jory as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Jory is Cornish for George. Cornwall had its own language until the eighteenth century and its own stock of names, and a handful of them, Jory, Jago, Loveday and Petroc, survived the language itself.
How old is the name Jory?
Jory first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Jory alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 700 people named Jory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jory most popular?
Jory peaked in 1950, reaching #3052 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 7,055 places below that high. See the whole 1950 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Georgios to Jory
The story of Jory
Cornish is a Brittonic language, closer to Welsh and Breton than to anything English, and it retreated westward for a thousand years until the last community of everyday speakers disappeared in the eighteenth century; Dolly Pentreath of Mousehole, who died in 1777, is traditionally called the last monolingual speaker, though the language limped on in fragments after her. What survived best was the name stock and the place names: every Tre-, Pol- and Pen- on the map of Cornwall is Cornish, and personal names like Jago for James, Jory for George, Petroc, Morwenna and Loveday stayed in use in families long after the sentences around them had become English. The language has since been revived, with several hundred speakers, and the names came back with it.
Meaningscholars disagree
Greek georgos, farmer
Jory is a Cornish form of George, from Greek georgos, a worker of the earth. In American records the same spelling may also be a variant of Jorie, Marjorie or Jory as a modern coinage. The American peak is 1950.
How the name formed
- Georgios
- George
- Jory
Related forms: Jory · George · Siors
Pronouncing Jory
JOR-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. It rhymes with story, and is said the same way in Cornish and in English.
Nicknames for Jory
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
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 201738 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3052reached in 1950
- Change vs 2024
- −43.8%9 in 2025, from 16
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.
Jory in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jory in Cornish — same name
- George in English — same name
- Siors in Welsh — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Michigan, Illinois.
Jorys among us
people named Jory are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Jory
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jory
- #10107
- Jory on the 2025 chart
- #889
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jory went to 9 girls in 2025, but Jori is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 71, which makes it the 889th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,218 places above the chart.
- Jori62
- Jory9
About 1 girl in 22,638 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Jory itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Orlanda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jory's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Orlanda climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Orlanda's path sketches the road Jory is walking now.
Jory 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
Jory beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jory in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables and four letters.
- It works for either sex, which suits a middle name.
- The Cornish tradition behind it is genuine and documented.
- It is read as male in Cornwall and as a variant of Jorie in America.
- The Cornish connection is invisible without explanation.
- The 1950 peak dates its American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jorys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jory?
- Jory is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jori is the more common one — 62 births in 2025 against 9 for Jory.
- How popular is the name Jory in 2025?
- Jory ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jory?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Jory — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jory with classmates?
- Jory will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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