# Jory (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jory/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,943 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,223 / 720 (18% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 94, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 15,707 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10,038 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,286 |
| 2014 | 18 | 6,843 |
| 2015 | 20 | 6,335 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,069 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,950 |
| 2018 | 38 | 3,885 |
| 2019 | 33 | 4,296 |
| 2020 | 18 | 6,467 |
| 2021 | 18 | 6,525 |
| 2022 | 14 | 7,809 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,840 |
| 2024 | 16 | 7,075 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,471 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 36 | 3,137 |
| 2012 | 33 | 3,331 |
| 2013 | 26 | 3,906 |
| 2014 | 26 | 3,957 |
| 2015 | 34 | 3,327 |
| 2016 | 43 | 2,812 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,280 |
| 2018 | 35 | 3,268 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,679 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,133 |
| 2021 | 26 | 4,065 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,365 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,164 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,489 |
| 2025 | 22 | 4,614 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,869 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,020 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## 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.