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Jorja

Jorja reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 976, and has been recorded 2,943 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,167th. About 2,800 Jorjas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jorja

By the numbers

Total US births
2,943
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
18
Peak year
2006
Best rank
976th
Rank in 2025
3,167th
First recorded
1942

How old the living Jorjas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,943 babies given the name since 1942, about 2,800 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 240 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 Ancient Greek

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Jorjas

People named Jorja with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Jorja is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jorja is most concentrated in Washington (3.0×), Indiana (2.2×), Georgia (2.1×), Tennessee (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular girls’ names the year Jorja peaked:

All the names of 2006

Jorja elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Jorja 2,129 223rd
New Zealand girls Jorja 456 35th
Scotland girls Jorja 288 153rd
Northern Ireland girls Jorja 161 130th
Ireland girls Jorja 158 267th
France girls Jorja 5 6,150th

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.

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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.