Jordan
Jordan stands at #131 nationally in 2025, cooling off gently. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1990 peak, 401,196 children in all.
What Jordan carries
Jordan · Hebrew
“descender”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Jordan’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Jordan, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Jordan since 1880
Jordan peaked in 1990 at #29; #131 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Jordan is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Jordan runs strongest in Rhode Island at 0.35% in 2025, then District of Columbia and Alaska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Jordan
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Jose
#95 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Joshua
#66 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jacob
#43 in 2025 · Hebrew
Juan
#159 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ivan
#163 in 2025 · Hebrew
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Sarah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with J · Hebrew names · all names
About Jordan
How common is Jordan today?
Jordan stands at #131 nationally in 2025, cooling off gently. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Jordan have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “descender”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Jordan?
The recipe puts Jose first, then Joshua, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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