# Joris (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/joris/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 59 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 59 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 157, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 6 | 3,979 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,272 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,416 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,738 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,883 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10,100 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,613 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,641 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,162 |
| 2017 | 5 | 13,182 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,217 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Joris

- Joris-Karl Huysmans, French novelist and art critic (1848–1907)
- Joris Mathijsen, Dutch association football player (born 1980)
- Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (1898-1989)
- Joris Chotard, French footballer (born 2001)
- Joris Kayembe, DR Congolese footballer
- Joris Gnagnon, French-Ivorian association football player
- Joris Daudet, French racing cyclist
- Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist and draftsman
- Joris van Overeem, Dutch-Israeli association footballer of maternal Israeli-Jewish descent
- Joris Nieuwenhuis, Dutch cyclist
- Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (1615-1669)
- Joris Marveaux, footballer

## 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.