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Jorge vs Jorman

American parents have registered 140,166 Jorges since 1880, against 52 Jormans. Jorge is still ahead, with 1,069 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jorge Jorman

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 1994, when Jorge had 3,325 and Jorman had 14.

Side by side

  Jorge Jorman
Total US births 140,16652
Most in one year 3,51814
Babies in 2025 1,069under 5
Estimated living today 132,00050
Median age today 2831
Peak year 20061994
Best rank 120th boys4,290th boys
Rank in 2025 322ndunranked
First recorded 19101993
Girls / boys 690 / 139,4760 / 52

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 Jormans alive today are over 31; half the Jorges are over 28. That is 3 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: Jorge and Jorman.