Jory
Masculine · “farmer”
Jory is given to both — 3,223 boys and 720 girls since 1880. See Jory as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Jory is the Cornish form of George, and Cornwall kept it as a distinctively local name long after the English form took over elsewhere.
How old is the name Jory?
Jory first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Jory alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 3,000 people named Jory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jory most popular?
Jory peaked in 1973, reaching #753 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 3,786 places below that high. See the whole 1973 chart.
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Where it comes from
From georgos to Jory
The story of Jory
Cornish was a living language until the eighteenth century and its naming stock reshaped English and Latin names in its own way — Jory for George, Loveday, Petroc. Jory survived as a Cornish surname and given name and is one of the small set of names that mark Cornish identity. It reaches American records with Cornish mining emigration to Michigan and Wisconsin.
Meaning
farmer, worker of the earth
From Greek georgos, joining ge, the earth, and ergon, work; Cornish took the name from English and reshaped it as Jory. The same Greek compound gives geography and energy their elements.
How the name formed
- georgos
- George
- Jory
Related forms: Jory · George · Siôr
Pronouncing Jory
JOR-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation 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
- 1947
- Most boys named
- 1989123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #753reached in 1973
- Change vs 2023
- −15.4%22 in 2025, from 26
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
- Siôr in Welsh — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jorys among us
people named Jory are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Jory
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jory
- #4539
- Jory on the 2025 chart
- #895
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jory went to 22 boys in 2025, but Jori is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 33, which makes it the 895th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,644 places above the chart.
- Jory22
- Jori11
About 1 boy in 51,760 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 77,640 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 Clive 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: Clive climbed just as high around 1906, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Clive'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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning that is concrete and easy to explain.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- It carries Cornish identity clearly, which is the point for the families who use it.
- It is close to Rory, Corey and Joey in an American ear.
- George is the standard form and the connection is invisible.
- It is used for both sexes in some American records.
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Masculine · #4539 in the U.S.
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 3,000 people named Jory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jory?
- Jory is the most-used spelling in US records — 22 of the 33 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jori.
- How popular is the name Jory in 2025?
- Jory ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jory?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Jory — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jory with classmates?
- Jory will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jory
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