girls:
696 births since 1950
#5020 (12th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1947
#2213 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1947
#4412 (43rd percentile)
The name Jory is the #4,412 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,886 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 43.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,213 (51.7% percentile) for all time with 3,190 births since 1947. For girls, it ranks #5,020 (12.1% percentile) for all time with 696 births since 1950.
Jory first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for boys and 1950 for girls). Birth data for Jory is available in 76 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (76 years for boys and 58 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 Jory has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 55.3% of babies named Jory were boys.
For boys, Jory reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 16.8% percentile (ranked #536) with 70 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 70 births per million (ranked 16.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jory ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 20.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jory reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #916) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jory ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 58.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jory".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Jory.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jory", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Jory.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jory. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jory is pronounced as JAW-ree, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Jory? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jory. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jory, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AO1 R IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker