Mordechai
Mordechai is ranked 966th among boys in 2024 (233 births). Its best rank was 750th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #966down 33 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2330.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2018315 births
- Best rank
- #750in 2018
- Since 1950
- 6,578people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,578 boys have been named Mordechai in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 315 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Mordechai was the 750th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Mordechai
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shlomopeak 2024
- Moshepeak 2023
- Simchapeak 2019
- Ismailpeak 2016
- Aryehpeak 2024
- Mustafapeak 2024
- Shmuelpeak 2022
- Yisroelpeak 2019
Other spellings in the data
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.