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Jorja

#3,182 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Georgia

Jorja has been given to 2,943 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #3,182 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 267 recorded.

Babies named Jorja, 2025

1 in 66,300

Jorja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jorja: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Georgia

Ancient Greek

What Jorja means

Jorja is a variant of Georgia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jorja → Georgia. The family’s meaning is “farmer”, recorded in English with the source elements Geṓrgios.

Origin, language, and formation

Jorja is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Georgia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,943 girls were recorded with the name Jorja between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 267 in 2006; its best national rank was #978 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,521 in 2020 to #3,182 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,157 in 2015 to #3,182 in 2025.

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 Jorja?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,182
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jorja sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jorja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jorjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jorja was born before 2007 — so the typical Jorja is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,796
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (1,442).

Is Jorja 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
+603
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+339
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−25
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.7%
Peak was 2006 (267)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#978
2006

Spellings of Jorja

Jorja is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 25.2% against Jorja's 0.27%.

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.

Where Jorja is used

Across 2016–2025, Jorja was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 91,326 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 25,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Jorja around the world

Where Jorja 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2025
    #301
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2003–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,150
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #403
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2003–2006
    #76
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jorja

People whose public names include Jorja, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jorja in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jorja. Linked forms have their own page here.

JorgaGeorgiaGiorgia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jorja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,182
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 339
Best rank ever
#978
2006
Peak year
2006
267 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,943
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Jorja

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

JorieJoriJordinJordanaJordynnJordiJoryJordenJordonJordyJorgeJorgiaJordieJoreneJordannJorettaJordynJoraJordisMarjaJordanJorgieJordannaJorah

Names with a curve like Jorja

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jorja, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AdisonJaedaKelisSamyaGizelleAydenAniahShaniyahLaniyaKamyaMyleeKirra

Sibling names for Jorja

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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