girls:
134.5k births since 1950
#294 (95th percentile)
boys:
395k births since 1880
#85 (98th percentile)
overall:
529.5k births since 1880
#122 (98th percentile)
The name Jordan is the #122 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 529,504 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #85 (98.2% percentile) for all time with 394,990 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #294 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 134,514 births since 1950.
Jordan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1950 for girls). Birth data for Jordan is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 67 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jordan has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 85.6% of babies named Jordan were boys.
For boys, Jordan reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 96.8% percentile (ranked #26) with 7,389 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 7,558 births per million (ranked 96.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jordan ranks #95 for boys (89.7% percentile) with 1,983 births per million, which is 26.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jordan reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 95.5% percentile (ranked #40) with 3,753 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3,753 births per million (ranked 95.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jordan ranks #444 for girls (53.2% percentile) with 350 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jordan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jordan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Jordan is pronounced as JOR-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOR-dihn, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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