Jorge
Jorge is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 120th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 322nd. About 132,000 Jorges are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jorge boys named Jorge
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 140,166
- Estimated living today
- 132,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 120th
- Rank in 2025
- 322nd
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 690 / 139,476
How old the living Jorges are
born that year still alive today
Of the 140,166 babies given the name since 1910, about 132,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 30,000 of them are children and 3,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish, Portuguese
and Portuguese Jorge, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jorges
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
- Jorge Amado (1912–2001)Brazilian writer
- Jorge Rafael Videla (1925–2013)Argentine dictator
- Jorge Carlos Fonseca (born 1950)Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
- Jorge Valdano (born 1955)Argentine association football player and manager
- Jorge Sampaio (1939–2021)President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006
- Jorge Semprún (1923–2011)Spanish-French writer
- Jorge Lorenzo (born 1987)Spanish professional motorcycle road racer
People named Jorge with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jorge is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jorge is most concentrated in California (3.4×), Texas (3.2×), Arizona (3.1×), Nevada (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Jorge peaked:
Jorge elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Jorge | 44,346 | 12th |
| France boys | Jorge | 2,615 | 199th |
| England and Wales boys | Jorge | 983 | 635th |
| Norway boys | Jorge | 323 | 323rd |
| Belgium boys | Jorge | 68 | 779th |
| Scotland boys | Jorge | 12 | 291st |
| England and Wales girls | Jorge | 6 | 3,848th |
| Ireland boys | Jorge | 6 | 741st |
| Poland boys | Jorge | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jorge: rank by region
In 2009, Jorge was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jorge | 857 | 5 |
In 2020, Jorge was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aragón | Jorge | 7 | 79 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jorge among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jorge | 57 | 83 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jorge lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 194,253 men called Jorge were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaragoza | Jorge | 7,575 | 15.451 | 7 |
| Huesca | Jorge | 1,717 | 14.654 | 7 |
| Teruel | Jorge | 952 | 13.727 | 10 |
| Palencia | Jorge | 906 | 11.497 | 16 |
| Cáceres | Jorge | 2,197 | 11.428 | 19 |
| Valladolid | Jorge | 2,920 | 11.345 | 22 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jorge against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.