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Jordynn vs Jorge

American parents have registered 140,166 Jorges since 1880, against 5,220 Jordynns. Jorge is still ahead, with 1,069 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordynn against Jorge, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordynn Jorge

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

Jorge has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1910 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Jordynn had 350 and Jorge had 1,848.

Side by side

  Jordynn Jorge
Total US births 5,220140,166
Most in one year 4293,518
Babies in 2025 481,069
Estimated living today 5,200132,000
Median age today 1328
Peak year 20102006
Best rank 689th girls120th boys
Rank in 2025 3,249th322nd
First recorded 19881910
Girls / boys 5,120 / 100690 / 139,476

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 Jorges alive today are over 28; half the Jordynns are over 13. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jordynn and Jorge.