Giordan — boys' name
114 babies named Giordan in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Giordan was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Giordan in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Giordan
The Social Security Administration has registered 114 babies named Giordan between 1990 and 2015, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Giordan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Giordan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 14 additional births since 1997.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Giordan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Giordan shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Giordan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Giordan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 114 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Giordan at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Giordan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1990
- Peak year (2002)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
114 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 11 births in a single year.
Giordan popularity over time — girls
14 total births recorded since 1997 (Giordan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Giordan accounts for 11% of total recorded use across both genders.
Giordan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 40 births that decade — 35% of Giordan's all-time total
Giordan decade highlights
- Peak decade 40 births
- Runner-up 39 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Giordan's strongest decade
40 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Giordan by state
Where Giordan concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 4.4% |
5 of 114 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 4.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.