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Jordy vs Jorge

American parents have registered 140,166 Jorges since 1880, against 6,934 Jordys. Jorge is still ahead, with 1,069 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordy against Jorge, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordy Jorge

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jorge has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1910 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Jordy had 267 and Jorge had 1,382.

Side by side

  Jordy Jorge
Total US births 6,934140,166
Most in one year 3323,518
Babies in 2025 1791,069
Estimated living today 6,800132,000
Median age today 1628
Peak year 20062006
Best rank 680th boys120th boys
Rank in 2025 1,260th322nd
First recorded 19571910
Girls / boys 247 / 6,687690 / 139,476

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jorges alive today are over 28; half the Jordys are over 16. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jordy Jorge
France 3,2952,615
Belgium 2,79668
England and Wales 131989
Scotland 912

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jordy and Jorge.