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Jorn

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jorn has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2005, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Jorn, 2019

1 in 694,000

Jorn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jorn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jorn means

Jorn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jorn is used in Dutch.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Jorn between 2005 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2005; its best national rank was #10,728 in 2005.

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 Jorn?

Jorn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jorn 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jorn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jorns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jorn was born before 2005 — so the typical Jorn is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Jorn 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 2005 (6)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,728
2005

Spellings of Jorn

Jorn is not the most common spelling — John is, with 61.3% against Jorn'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.

Jorn around the world

Where Jorn 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.

  • France
    2002–2002
    #4,329
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jorn 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
—
Best rank ever
#10,728
2005
Peak year
2005
6 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jorn

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

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Sibling names for Jorn

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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