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Jordy vs Jorie

American parents have registered 6,934 Jordys since 1880, against 1,358 Jories. Jordy is still ahead, with 179 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordy against Jorie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordy Jorie

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

Of the 72 years in which either name was published, Jordy for 42 years and Jorie for 30 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Jordy Jorie
Total US births 6,9341,358
Most in one year 33246
Babies in 2025 17927
Estimated living today 6,8001,300
Median age today 1629
Peak year 20061991
Best rank 680th boys2,620th girls
Rank in 2025 1,260th4,878th
First recorded 19571949
Girls / boys 247 / 6,6871,344 / 14

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 Jories alive today are over 29; half the Jordys are over 16. That is 13 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.

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