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Jorge vs Jorie

American parents have registered 140,166 Jorges since 1880, against 1,358 Jories. Jorge is still ahead, with 1,069 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jorge 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

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 1952, when Jorge had 256 and Jorie had 10.

Side by side

  Jorge Jorie
Total US births 140,1661,358
Most in one year 3,51846
Babies in 2025 1,06927
Estimated living today 132,0001,300
Median age today 2829
Peak year 20061991
Best rank 120th boys2,620th girls
Rank in 2025 322nd4,878th
First recorded 19101949
Girls / boys 690 / 139,4761,344 / 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.

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: Jorge and Jorie.