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Jordon

Jordon is a boy's name that peaked in 1991, when it was the 340th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,050th. About 15,000 Jordons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jordon boys named Jordon

Girls and boys called Jordon

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,846 girls and 13,762 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 26.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 50 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
15,608
Estimated living today
15,000
Median age today
29
Peak year
1991
Best rank
340th
Rank in 2025
4,050th
First recorded
1888
Girls / boys
1,846 / 13,762

How old the living Jordons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 15,608 babies given the name since 1888, about 15,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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.

Notable Jordons

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

Where Jordon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jordon is most concentrated in Utah (2.1×), Washington (1.8×), Florida (1.6×), Kentucky (1.6×).

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

Names of 1991

The most popular boys’ names the year Jordon peaked:

All the names of 1991

Jordon elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Jordon 1,873 133rd
Scotland boys Jordon 236 155th
England and Wales girls Jordon 137 852nd
Ireland boys Jordon 41 162nd
Northern Ireland boys Jordon 34 158th
Scotland girls Jordon 8 557th

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.

Related names

Jordon against another name

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

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.