Joris
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dutch form of George, from Greek Georgios 'farmer, earth-worker'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɔʁis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.1K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dutch form of George, from Greek Georgios 'farmer, earth-worker'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joris counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #619 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 16K | Joris | 293 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 12K | Joris | 35 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 3.4K | Joris | 69 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Joris | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 491K | — | Joris | 41 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 350 | Joris | 25 |
| US United States | — | 294 | 1 in 1.1M | 272 | Joris | 41 |
| GA Gabon | #649 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | Joris | 22 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Joris is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Base personal-name surname; related patronymic form in Jorissen with weak genitive -en.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In French, Forme néerlandaise de Georges; du grec, « qui travaille la terre ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Variante de Grégoire; forme néerlandaise liée à Gregory.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische und niederländische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dutch and Frisian form of both Georgius (see GEORGE ) and Gregorius (see GREGORY ).
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George of Poděbradyb. 1420CZnot in their usual nameking of Bohemia
- Joris-Karl Huysmansb. 1848FRFrench novelist and art critic (1848–1907)
- Joris Ivensb. 1898NLDutch filmmaker (1898-1989)
- Jiří Voskovecb. 1905USnot in their usual nameCzech-American actor, writer, humorist, comedian, director, lyricist, singer, poet and translator (1905–1981)
- Jiří Menzelb. 1938CZnot in their usual nameCzech film director, actor, director, scriptwriter, writer and university educator (1938-2020)
- Jiří Paroubekb. 1952CZnot in their usual nameCzech politician, former prime minister
- Jiří Rusnokb. 1960CZnot in their usual nameCzech politician and economist (* 1960)
- Joris Jarskyb. 1974CACanadian actor
- Joris Mathijsenb. 1980NLDutch association football player (born 1980)
- Joris Chotardb. 2001FRFrench footballer (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 16K | #1,069 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 12K | #323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 272 | #29,893 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #29,893 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 5 | #91 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joris mean, and where does it come from?
- Dutch form of George, from Greek Georgios 'farmer, earth-worker'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Joris?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages; Sjors is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Joris?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɔʁis/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Joris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Joris in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joris.
- Is Joris a male or female name?
- Joris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Joris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 294 people named Joris in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Joris compared with other names?
- In France, Joris is the 619th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jorisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joris” — the 619th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.