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Jordy vs Jorman

American parents have registered 6,934 Jordys since 1880, against 52 Jormans. Jordy is still ahead, with 179 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jordy Jorman

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

Jordy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Jordy had 46 and Jorman had 9.

Side by side

  Jordy Jorman
Total US births 6,93452
Most in one year 33214
Babies in 2025 179under 5
Estimated living today 6,80050
Median age today 1631
Peak year 20061994
Best rank 680th boys4,290th boys
Rank in 2025 1,260thunranked
First recorded 19571993
Girls / boys 247 / 6,6870 / 52

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 Jormans alive today are over 31; half the Jordys are over 16. That is 15 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 Jorman.