girls:
1.8k births since 1978
#3943 (31st percentile)
boys:
13.7k births since 1888
#993 (78th percentile)
overall:
15.5k births since 1888
#2095 (73rd percentile)
The name Jordon is the #2,095 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,543 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 72.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #993 (78.3% percentile) for all time with 13,698 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #3,943 (31.0% percentile) for all time with 1,845 births since 1978.
Jordon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1978 for girls). Birth data for Jordon is available in 103 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (103 years for boys and 40 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 Jordon has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jordon were boys.
For boys, Jordon reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 57.7% percentile (ranked #322) with 338 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 338 births per million (ranked 57.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 1996, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Jordon ranks #871 for boys (4.4% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jordon reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #722) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 65 births per million (ranked 15.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jordon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jordon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Jordon is pronounced as JOR-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JER-duhn, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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