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Jordy vs Joreen

American parents have registered 6,934 Jordys since 1880, against 106 Joreens. Jordy is still ahead, with 179 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordy against Joreen, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordy 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 61 years in which either name was published, Jordy for 50 years and Joreen for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jordy Joreen
Total US births 6,934106
Most in one year 33222
Babies in 2025 179under 5
Estimated living today 6,80040
Median age today 1670
Peak year 20061928
Best rank 680th boys1,784th girls
Rank in 2025 1,260thunranked
First recorded 19571928
Girls / boys 247 / 6,687106 / 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 Jordys are over 16. That is 54 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: Jordy and Joreen.