Given name & surname
Joris
“one who works the earth; a farmer”·“farmer”·“one who works the earth”
Joris is a variant of Joren. In Scandinavian use, Joren carries the interpretation “one who works the earth; a farmer.” Joris shares an earlier linguistic root with George. George’s Greek root means “farmer” or “one who works the earth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Joris is a variant of Joren. In Scandinavian use, Joren carries the interpretation “one who works the earth; a farmer.” Joris shares an earlier linguistic root with George. George’s Greek root means “farmer” or “one who works the earth.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Joris shares an earlier linguistic root with George. George reached English through Old French and Latin from the Greek name Georgios.
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How it developed
Joris shares an earlier linguistic root with George. The shared background comes through George: Georgios comes from georgos, built from elements meaning “earth” and “to work.” Latin Georgius and Old French forms helped carry it into English.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Joris shares an earlier linguistic root with Gregory. The history of Gregory gives this family its wider story. Gregory’s historical associations include a number of early saints. Joris shares an earlier linguistic root with George. The history of George gives this family its wider story. Saint George gave the name a religious and legendary association; the dragon story developed in the Middle Ages. In England, George I’s accession in 1714 helped increase the name’s use beyond its earlier saintly associations.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Joris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 59
- 59 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 294 as a first name in 2020; 168 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Joris’s family of names
Joris shares a linguistic root with George. In Dutch usage, Joris has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge. In Dutch usage, Joris has a conventional equivalent in the English form George.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Joris has relatives in 7 languages.
7 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 68
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Georgecognate · English
- JorgeSpanish
- Gregorycognate
- Yuriequivalent
- Jordiequivalent
- GiorgioItalian
- Joriequivalent
- Joryequivalent
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- Georgiosequivalent
- Juriequivalent
- GeorgesFrench
- Gevorgequivalent
- Jurgenequivalent
- Jerzyequivalent
- Yegorequivalent
- Jornequivalent
- Yuryequivalent
- GeorgGerman
- Georgyequivalent
- Giorgiequivalent
- Georgiequivalent
- Jyriequivalent
- Գևորգequivalent
- Siôrequivalent
- Xurdeequivalent
- Jürgensequivalent
- Jurijequivalent
- Göranequivalent
- Đurađequivalent
- Єгорequivalent
- Jüriequivalent
- Jurequivalent
- Jürgequivalent
- Jergušequivalent
- Егорequivalent
- გიორგიequivalent
- Yrjöequivalent
- Chorcheequivalent
- Jörgequivalent
- Jürgenequivalent
- Gorchequivalent
- ΓεώργιοςGreek
- JiříCzech
- Jureequivalent
- Jørgenequivalent
- Georgiusequivalent
- Corcequivalent
- Георгийequivalent
- Georgijeequivalent
- Juroequivalent
- Jørnequivalent
- Yehorequivalent
- Jurgensequivalent
- Jyrkiequivalent
- Jörnequivalent
- Xurxoequivalent
- Đorđeequivalent
- Juergequivalent
- Jordequivalent
- Gheorgheequivalent
And 8 more.
People named Joris
- Joris-Karl HuysmansFrench novelist and art critic (1848–1907)
- Joris MathijsenDutch association football player (born 1980)
- Joris IvensDutch filmmaker (1898-1989)
- Joris ChotardFrench footballer (born 2001)
- Joris KayembeDR Congolese footballerborn 1994
- Joris GnagnonFrench-Ivorian association football playerborn 1997
- Joris DaudetFrench racing cyclistborn 1991
- Joris HoefnagelFlemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist and draftsman1542–1600
- Joris NieuwenhuisDutch cyclistborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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