Jorn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of Jorgen, a variant of Jurgen; a German form of George
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɔɾn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jorn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.4K
- NONorway≈1 in 9.4K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jörn in DE Germany, SE Sweden.
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)
from a short form of Jorgen, a variant of Jurgen; a German form of George.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jorn 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.
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jorn Bargerb. 1953USAmerican blogger
- Jörn Weisbrodtb. 1973USGerman arts administrator
- Jorn van Deynhovenb. 1977NLDutch DJ and record producer
- Jorn Vermeulenb. 1987BEBelgian footballer
- Jorn Smitsb. 1992NLDutch handball player
- Jorn Brondeelb. 1993BEBelgian association football player
- Jorn Pedersenb. 1997JPJapanese association football player
- Jorn Vancampb. 1998BEBelgian association football player
- Jorn van Hedelb. 2000NLDutch association football player
- Jorn Berkhoutb. 2002NLDutch association football player
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #59,790 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #66,538 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Jorn mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of Jorgen, a variant of Jurgen; a German form of George. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Jorn a male or female name?
- Jorn 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.
- In which country does Jorn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Jorn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jörn.
- Where is Jorn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jorn is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Jorn?
- A machine transcription gives /jɔɾn/ (IPA) for German.
- What are other forms of the name Jorn?
- In the etymology graph, Georg is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Jorn?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,219 people named Jorn, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Jorn compared with other names?
- In Germany, Jorn is the 409th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jorn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jornThe 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, “Jorn” — the 409th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.