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Jordyn vs Jorene

American parents have registered 68,060 Jordyns since 1880, against 515 Jorenes. Jordyn is still ahead, with 889 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordyn against Jorene, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordyn Jorene

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 92 years in which either name was published, Jordyn for 47 years and Jorene for 45 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jordyn Jorene
Total US births 68,060515
Most in one year 3,18123
Babies in 2025 889under 5
Estimated living today 67,000290
Median age today 1672
Peak year 20101948
Best rank 112th girls2,008th girls
Rank in 2025 371stunranked
First recorded 19791921
Girls / boys 62,171 / 5,889515 / 0

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 Jorenes alive today are over 72; half the Jordyns are over 16. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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