Mordechai vs Morrell
American parents have registered 6,821 Mordechais since 1880, against 692 Morrells. Mordechai is still ahead, with 238 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Mordechai Morrell
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 110 years in which either name was published, Mordechai for 69 years and Morrell for 41 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Mordechai | Morrell | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,821 | 692 |
| Most in one year | 315 | 17 |
| Babies in 2025 | 238 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 6,700 | 350 |
| Median age today | 14 | 49 |
| Peak year | 2018 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 748th boys | 1,882nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 965th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1950 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 6,821 | 0 / 692 |
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 Morrells alive today are over 49; half the Mordechais are over 14. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mordechai and Morrell.