Jordan — #104 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jordan

The Social Security Administration has registered 398,415 babies named Jordan between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jordan currently holds the #104 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 16,137 babies received it in a single year. Jordan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 135,084 additional births since 1950.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jordan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 144,752 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jordan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 42,630 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jordan in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jordan 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 398,415 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.