Jordan

What Jordan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jordan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #59 in 2015, #131 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jordan?

US: Falling: down from #59 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #200 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1991, when 16,020 boys got the name (#29 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 625 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,439 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 818 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (3.52 per 1,000 boys), DC (3.17 per 1,000 boys), AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jordan is #131 in the US and #248 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 84.5% of US babies named Jordan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jordyn63 US
• Jordon26 US · 6 E&W
• Jorden28 US · 3 E&W
• Jordin16 US
• Jourdan7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jordan

Boys

• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Mathew#973Variant of Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*
• Joshua#66“to save”^*
• Johnathan#508Variant of Jonathan, meaning “God has given”^*

For a sister

• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Rebekah#884“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Jessica#665possibly “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe…^*
• Michelle#465Feminine form of Michel, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jordan’s. Rank is US 2025.