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Jordanne vs Jordon

American parents have registered 15,608 Jordons since 1880, against 619 Jordannes. Jordon is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jordanne 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 2016, when Jordanne had 7 and Jordon had 89.

Side by side

  Jordanne Jordon
Total US births 61915,608
Most in one year 43849
Babies in 2025 under 526
Estimated living today 61015,000
Median age today 3029
Peak year 19941991
Best rank 2,797th girls340th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,050th
First recorded 19801888
Girls / boys 619 / 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 Jordanne Jordon
England and Wales 1542,010
Scotland 37244

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: Jordanne and Jordon.