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Jordache vs Jordyn

American parents have registered 68,060 Jordyns since 1880, against 30 Jordaches. Jordyn is still ahead, with 889 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordache against Jordyn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordache Jordyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Jordyn for 46 years and Jordache for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jordache Jordyn
Total US births 3068,060
Most in one year 123,181
Babies in 2025 under 5889
Estimated living today 3067,000
Median age today 4416
Peak year 19802010
Best rank 3,430th boys112th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked371st
First recorded 19801979
Girls / boys 0 / 3062,171 / 5,889

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jordaches alive today are over 44; half the Jordyns are over 16. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jordache Jordyn
England and Wales 3219

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jordache and Jordyn.