Jordan
Jordan is ranked 104th among boys in 2024 (3,326 births). Its best rank was 26th, in 1997.
- Rank in 2024
- #104down 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,3260.19% of boys
- Peak year
- 199016,137 births
- Best rank
- #26in 1997
- Since 1880
- 533,499people given the name
The story in the numbers
398,415 boys have been named Jordan in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 16,137 births — 0.79% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 55 → 104).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 36%. It has spent 141 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.
Jordan is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are girls (135,084), most of them born around 1997.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jordan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 158 | |
| 1890s | 117 | |
| 1900s | 123 | |
| 1910s | 395 | |
| 1920s | 854 | |
| 1930s | 770 | |
| 1940s | 690 | |
| 1950s | 1,189 | |
| 1960s | 1,852 | |
| 1970s | 5,452 | |
| 1980s | 57,179 | |
| 1990s | 144,752 | |
| 2000s | 101,185 | |
| 2010s | 64,502 | |
| 2020s | 19,197 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Jordan was the 29th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Jordan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marquellpeak 1996
- Davonpeak 1994
- Markesepeak 1995
- Dontaviouspeak 1991
- Kalinpeak 1994
- Deandrepeak 1994
- Marquelpeak 1995
- Marquesepeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.