Jordan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Jordan boys named Jordan

Girls and boys called Jordan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 135,599 girls and 401,196 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 503 to 2,732.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 116 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

536,795

Estimated living today

521,000

Median age today

26

Peak year

1990

Best rank

29th

Rank in 2025

131st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

135,599 / 401,196

How old the living Jordans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 536,795 babies given the name since 1880, about 521,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 124,000 of them are children and 1,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης, from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (“Jordan (river)”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Jordans

• Jordan Peterson (born 1962)Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist
• Jordan Henderson (born 1990)English association football player
• Jordan Pickford (born 1994)English footballer
• Jordan Ayew (born 1991)Ghanaian footballer
• Jordan Peele (born 1979)American actor, comedian and filmmaker
• Jordan Bardella (born 1995)French politician
• Jordan Belfort (born 1962)American stockbroker
• Jordan Veretout (born 1993)French footballer

People named Jordan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Jordan is most common

• CA54,758
• TX43,936
• FL29,263
• NY27,836
• OH22,936
• IL20,326
• PA19,891
• MI19,583
• GA18,867
• NC17,370

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jordan is most concentrated in Nevada (2.2×), Alaska (1.7×), Utah (1.7×), Hawaii (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Jordan peaked:

• Michael
• Christopher
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Daniel
• David

All the names of 1990

Jordan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Jordan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Jordan is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.21% of children were given it – 30 of them.

Jordan: rank by region

In 2025, Jordan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2023, Jordan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2024, Jordan was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jordan appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (259th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Jordan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Jordan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Jordan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,689 men called Jordan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Jorge
• Jordyn
• Jordon
• Jorden
• Jordy
• Jordin
• Jordynn
• Jory
• Jordi
• Jordana
• Jorja
• Jori

Jordan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Jordan vs Jorge
• Jordan vs Jordyn
• Jordan vs Jordon
• Jordan vs Jorden
• Jordan vs Jordy
• Jordan vs Jordin

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