# Joran (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/joran/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “jehoram” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 192 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 192 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

* From Dutch Joran, possibly a variant of Joram, from Hebrew יוֹרָם, a contracted form of יְהוֹרָם (yehorám, “Jehoram”). * From Norwegian Jøran and Swedish Jöran, related to English George.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 7 | 6,885 |
| 1993 | 8 | 6,516 |
| 1994 | 8 | 6,667 |
| 1996 | 6 | 8,425 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,020 |
| 2000 | 9 | 7,097 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,418 |
| 2002 | 8 | 8,036 |
| 2003 | 9 | 7,535 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,614 |
| 2005 | 12 | 6,409 |
| 2006 | 13 | 6,278 |
| 2008 | 10 | 7,982 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10,154 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,386 |

## People named Joran

- Joran Vliegen, Belgian tennis player (born 1993)
- Joran van der Sloot, Dutch murderer
- Joran Wyseure, Belgian cyclocross rider

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.