Jori is a short form of Jordan, the river name that means "flowing down" or "descending", or of Marjorie, and for American girls it belongs with the clipped names of the 1970s and 1980s like Tori and Lori. In the Netherlands and Finland the same spelling is a boys' name derived from George. Jori is rare for girls in the United States: it stood at number 3136 in 2000 and reached number 2762 in 2025, its best rank so far.