Jordan
Jordan is the 118th most common surname in the United States, shared by 200,984 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,487.
By the numbers
- People
- 200,984
- Rank
- 118th
- How common
- 1 in 1,487
- Per 100,000
- 67.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης, from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (“Jordan (river)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Jordan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Jordan
- Michael Jordan (born 1963)American basketball player and businessman
- Abdullah I of Jordan (1882–1951)Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
- Michael B. Jordan (born 1987)American actor
- Camille Jordan (1838–1922)French mathematician
- Robert Jordan (1948–2007)American fantasy writer
- Pascual Jordan (1902–1980)German physicist and politician
- David Starr Jordan (1851–1931)American ichthyologist and educator
- Eddie Jordan (1948–2025)Irish motorsport executive and broadcaster
People named Jordan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Jordan
Also a first name
Jordan has been given to 536,795 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.