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Joris

Boys' name

Form of George

Joris has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1927. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Joris, 2017

1 in 715,000

Joris over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joris: meaning, origin, and history

Form of George

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joris means

Joris is a form of George.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Joris is used in Dutch and Frisian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈjoː.rɪs/ for Joris.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Joris → George. The family’s proposed meaning is “farmer, earth worker”, recorded in English with the source elements geōrgós.

Origin, language, and formation

Joris is used in Dutch and Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include George.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Joris is pronounced /ˈjoː.rɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Joris between 1927 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,977 in 1927.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Joris?

Joris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joris sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joris was born before 2006 — so the typical Joris is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Joris rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (9)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,977
1927

Spellings of Joris

Joris is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 39.7% against Joris's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Joris around the world

Where Joris ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2020
    #334
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2011–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    1945–2025
    #1,357
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Joris by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,977
1927
Peak year
2009
9 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joris

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Joris

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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