Jorge

282,866 people in America carry this name — ranked #186 of 923.

Carried mostly by Generation Z.

Say it HAWR hay

2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

HH AO1 R HH EY0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 282,866 2020 Census
  • Per 100,000 93.7 about 1 in 1,172 people

Where Jorge comes from and what it means

Greek in origin, reading literally as “husbandman”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

How often Jorge has been given

134,167 babies were given this name since 1910. The busiest year was 2006, with 3,518 of them.

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Most people carrying it were born in the 2000s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

What goes well after Jorge

Two syllables sit with almost anything — the join matters more than the length.

Better avoided

  • Jorge John — same opening
  • Jorge James — same opening
  • Jorge Joseph — same opening

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

Boys or girls: who is called Jorge?

99.8% men
548 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

This name in other languages

  • Jortz Gr.|Prov
  • Giorgio Gr.|It

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

The states where Jorge is most common

In Texas the name is given 2.7 times as often as it is across the country.

  • Texas ×2.7
  • California ×2.7
  • Arizona ×2.3
  • Nevada ×1.8
  • Florida ×1.4

Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.

How to spell Jorge

Jorge is how 38% of them spell it — 735,196 people answer to the sound.

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Who carries it today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 2.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 96.6%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

The likeliest full names

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

Same syllables and stress as Jorge

Nothing else in the file ends on the same sound — a rare thing, and useful if you want a first name nobody will echo.

Same rhythm — 2 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

Try it First-Year Costs

Open First-Year Costs on its own page

Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Greek origin