Given name
Jorai
“rainy”·“whom Yah teaches”
Jorai is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewיורי
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Jorai is thought to mean “rainy” or “whom Yah teaches.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Jorai is a biblical name, probably from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
Possibly from the Hebrew verb yara (ירה), “to cast or shoot, and possibly.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2025. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Jorai appears in 1 Chronicles 5:13.
From biblical name research
Jorai through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,898 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,898 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jorai’s family of names
See also 13
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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