Jordon
Jordon was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,083 among boys’ names; 15,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,800 Americans named Jordon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jordon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jordon?
#4,083 among boys’ names, 2025
Jordon fell from #1,620 in 2015 to #4,083 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 51.7 to 15.2 per million.
849 babies in 1991, the peak
Jordon peaked in 1991, when 849 babies were given it (716 boys, #340 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 26 | #4,083 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 36 | #3,299 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 45 | #2,820 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 37 | #3,242 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 40 | #3,044 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,215 | 56 | #2,380 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 66 | #2,157 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 68 | #2,093 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,138 | 62 | #2,175 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,184 | 83 | #1,820 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,355 | 99 | #1,620 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,495 | 112 | #1,460 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,786 | 118 | #1,418 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,031 | 162 | #1,132 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,394 | 167 | #1,107 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,474 | 202 | #977 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,416 | 226 | #918 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,500 | 260 | #838 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,444 | 306 | #738 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,155 | 289 | #740 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,545 | 310 | #677 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,938 | 354 | #604 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,617 | 396 | #564 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,615 | 400 | #553 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,389 | 428 | #523 |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,024 | 508 | #466 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,379 | 525 | #439 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,850 | 539 | #430 |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,525 | 564 | #410 |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,440 | 519 | #433 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,639 | 525 | #436 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,716 | 526 | #433 |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,629 | 561 | #414 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,474 | 561 | #405 |
| 1991 | 133 | #1,260 | 716 | #340 |
| 1990 | 117 | #1,353 | 693 | #349 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,589 | 486 | #426 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,307 | 367 | #480 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,171 | 355 | #468 |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,012 | 318 | #492 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,461 | 243 | #565 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,065 | 179 | #644 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,409 | 171 | #654 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,344 | 131 | #768 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,411 | 123 | #786 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,704 | 77 | #1,034 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 63 | #1,133 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,434 | 38 | #1,518 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 25 | #1,972 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 25 | #1,958 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 21 | #2,167 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 18 | #2,315 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 17 | #2,355 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 15 | #2,484 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 11 | #3,057 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 14 | #2,568 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 11 | #2,775 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 16 | #2,067 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,400 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 20 | #1,739 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,393 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 13 | #2,357 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,484 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 11 | #2,588 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 13 | #2,373 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,478 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 10 | #2,731 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 9 | #2,924 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 13 | #2,323 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,082 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,130 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,660 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,614 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 10 | #2,604 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,350 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 8 | #2,745 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,386 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 8 | #2,812 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,767 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 14 | #1,940 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 9 | #2,536 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,758 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 11 | #2,271 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 13 | #2,011 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 11 | #2,328 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,477 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 10 | #2,450 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 16 | #1,886 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 19 | #1,665 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 11 | #2,526 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,112 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 11 | #2,575 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 11 | #2,618 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,517 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 10 | #2,846 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,132 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 8 | #3,309 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,698 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 11 | #2,712 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,482 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,486 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 10 | #2,637 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #2,948 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 10 | #2,187 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 6 | #985 |
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 Jordon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,608 Americans recorded as Jordon, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 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 Jordon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jordon, and how old are they?
14,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 15,608 Americans ever recorded as Jordon. The median Jordon alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 12,179 people named Jordon (1,558 women and girls, 10,621 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,787 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 95 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 359 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 885 |
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 Jordon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,757 | 0.7× |
Where Jordon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jordon is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Jordon 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, Jordon is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 3,289 babies (<1%), the third 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 Jordon
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 Jordon and names like it
- Compare Jordon and JordanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJordon peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jordon since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jordon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jordon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.