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Jordanna vs Jordon

American parents have registered 15,608 Jordons since 1880, against 839 Jordannas. Jordon is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordanna against Jordon, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordanna Jordon

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

Jordon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1970, when Jordanna had 7 and Jordon had 14.

Side by side

  Jordanna Jordon
Total US births 83915,608
Most in one year 31849
Babies in 2025 under 526
Estimated living today 82015,000
Median age today 2829
Peak year 19891991
Best rank 3,330th girls340th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,050th
First recorded 19701888
Girls / boys 839 / 01,846 / 13,762

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jordanna Jordon
England and Wales 2272,010
Ireland 641

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: Jordanna and Jordon.