Jordon
Jordon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 340th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1991716 births
- Best rank
- #340in 1991
- Since 1888
- 15,581people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,735 boys have been named Jordon in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 716 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 42%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,846 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jordon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 38 | |
| 1920s | 80 | |
| 1930s | 118 | |
| 1940s | 50 | |
| 1950s | 71 | |
| 1960s | 117 | |
| 1970s | 247 | |
| 1980s | 2,450 | |
| 1990s | 5,729 | |
| 2000s | 3,476 | |
| 2010s | 1,139 | |
| 2020s | 214 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Jordon was the 340th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Jordon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zacharypeak 1993
- Brandynpeak 1992
- Tylerpeak 1994
- Schylerpeak 1992
- Diontepeak 1993
- Zackerypeak 1994
- Deantepeak 1997
- Zacherypeak 1993
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.