girls:
123 births since 1981
#5593 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2023
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
128 births since 1981
#7611 (2nd percentile)
The name Jora is the #7,611 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 128 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,593 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 123 births since 1981. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2023.
Jora first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for girls and 2023 for boys). Birth data for Jora is available in 17 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (17 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jora has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 64.3% of babies named Jora were girls.
For girls, Jora reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #890) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jora ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 85.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jora reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #911) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Jora is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #911 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jora".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jora is pronounced as JAW-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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