Jory
Jory is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 755th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1989123 births
- Best rank
- #755in 1973
- Since 1947
- 3,913people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,201 boys have been named Jory in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 123 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 27%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Jory is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (712), most of them born around 2017.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1989, its biggest year
Jory was the 917th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Jory
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Derrekpeak 1989
- Markeithpeak 1990
- Korypeak 1989
- Geremypeak 1989
- Koreypeak 1990
- Sherrodpeak 1991
- Frantzpeak 1988
- Geraldopeak 1988
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.