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Jorden vs Joreen

American parents have registered 9,365 Jordens since 1880, against 106 Joreens. Jorden is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jorden against Joreen, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jorden Joreen

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

Of the 71 years in which either name was published, Jorden for 59 years and Joreen for 12 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jorden Joreen
Total US births 9,365106
Most in one year 40622
Babies in 2025 28under 5
Estimated living today 9,10040
Median age today 2170
Peak year 20111928
Best rank 676th boys1,784th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848thunranked
First recorded 19031928
Girls / boys 2,335 / 7,030106 / 0

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 Joreens alive today are over 70; half the Jordens are over 21. That is 49 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: Jorden and Joreen.