Jorden
Jorden was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,892 among boys’ names; 9,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,140 Americans named Jorden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jorden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jorden?
#3,892 among boys’ names, 2025
Jorden fell from #1,183 in 2015 to #3,892 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 81.9 to 16.4 per million.
406 babies in 2008, the peak
Jorden peaked in 2008, when 406 babies were given it (336 boys, #702 among boys’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 28 | #3,892 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 35 | #3,360 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 50 | #2,631 | |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,760 | 59 | #2,391 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,587 | 60 | #2,309 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,202 | 74 | #1,956 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,596 | 83 | #1,833 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,939 | 88 | #1,754 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,730 | 100 | #1,608 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,772 | 145 | #1,265 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,922 | 157 | #1,183 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,834 | 193 | #1,041 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,694 | 224 | #920 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,651 | 229 | #906 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,573 | 348 | #676 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,279 | 330 | #706 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,177 | 339 | #706 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,647 | 336 | #702 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,873 | 341 | #693 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,295 | 278 | #760 |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,111 | 271 | #745 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,181 | 227 | #796 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,762 | 240 | #746 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,674 | 218 | #791 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,716 | 224 | #770 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,718 | 212 | #779 |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,647 | 191 | #799 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,462 | 240 | #697 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,541 | 182 | #806 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,611 | 160 | #865 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,446 | 154 | #879 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,442 | 150 | #882 |
| 1993 | 95 | #1,601 | 161 | #827 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,649 | 106 | #1,061 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,730 | 151 | #844 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,673 | 140 | #864 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,103 | 85 | #1,147 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,629 | 78 | #1,133 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,458 | 51 | #1,431 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,813 | 56 | #1,306 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,173 | 40 | #1,606 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,548 | 27 | #2,007 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,976 | 22 | #2,307 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,126 | 19 | #2,554 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,604 | 16 | #2,829 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,496 | 17 | #2,788 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,617 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,407 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,875 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 9 | #3,695 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,786 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,162 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,180 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,050 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 7 | #3,536 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,571 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,668 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,662 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,534 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 9 | #2,726 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 5 | #1,212 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jorden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,365 Americans recorded as Jorden, 25% are girls and 75% boys. In 2025 it went to 28 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jorden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jorden, and how old are they?
9,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,365 Americans ever recorded as Jorden. The median Jorden alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 7,881 people named Jorden (2,085 women and girls, 5,796 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,878 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,450 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jorden born?
The states with the most babies named Jorden are California, Texas and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 879 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 705 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 432 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 360 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 352 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 310 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 273 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 195 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 168 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 159 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Jorden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jorden is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jorden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 562,503 babies since 1880, Jorden is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 3,289 babies (<1%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jorden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jorden and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jorden since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jorden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jorden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.