girls:
690 births since 1953
#5026 (12th percentile)
boys:
137.2k births since 1910
#243 (95th percentile)
overall:
137.9k births since 1910
#540 (93rd percentile)
The name Jorge is the #540 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 137,881 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 93.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #243 (94.7% percentile) for all time with 137,191 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,026 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 690 births since 1953.
Jorge first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1953 for girls). Birth data for Jorge is available in 112 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 48 years for girls). 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 Jorge has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jorge reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 87.0% percentile (ranked #107) with 1,674 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 1,728 births per million (ranked 85.6% percentile). Despite a low point around 2001, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Jorge ranks #266 for boys (70.9% percentile) with 667 births per million, which is 38.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jorge reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #819) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jorge".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Jorge. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Jorge is pronounced as HOR-hay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jorg, at 10.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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