Jordyn
Jordyn was given to 826 girls in 2025, #371 among girls’ names; 68,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 67,400 Americans named Jordyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jordyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jordyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jordyn is “a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jordan.”
Also “a male given name from Hebrew, a rare modern spelling variant of Jordan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jordyn?
#371 among girls’ names, 2025
Jordyn fell from #136 in 2015 to #371 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.3 to 0.51 per 1,000.
3,181 babies in 2010, the peak
Jordyn peaked in 2010, when 3,181 babies were given it (2,810 girls, #112 among girls’ names). The 889 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 826 | #371 | 0.51 |
| 2024 | 951 | #326 | 0.59 |
| 2023 | 1,175 | #267 | 0.73 |
| 2022 | 1,299 | #234 | 0.79 |
| 2021 | 1,428 | #210 | 0.87 |
| 2020 | 1,497 | #193 | 0.93 |
| 2019 | 1,732 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,744 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,847 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,111 | #146 | 1.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,379 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 2,552 | #127 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,389 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 2,569 | #122 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 2,615 | #121 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 2,810 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 2009 | 2,588 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 2,377 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 2007 | 2,489 | #139 | 1.3 |
| 2006 | 1,963 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 1,845 | #188 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,833 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 2,190 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 2,098 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 1,884 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 1,732 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 1,615 | #193 | 0.91 |
| 1998 | 1,583 | #197 | 0.90 |
| 1997 | 1,437 | #204 | 0.83 |
| 1996 | 1,116 | #254 | 0.64 |
| 1995 | 1,149 | #248 | 0.65 |
| 1994 | 1,007 | #278 | 0.56 |
| 1993 | 895 | #301 | 0.49 |
| 1992 | 685 | #375 | 0.37 |
| 1991 | 595 | #427 | 0.32 |
| 1990 | 509 | #479 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 230 | #823 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 120 | #1,240 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,375 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,984 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,458 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,812 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,084 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,287 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,586 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jordyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 68,060 Americans recorded as Jordyn, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 826 girls and 63 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jordyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jordyn, and how old are they?
67,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 68,060 Americans ever recorded as Jordyn. The median Jordyn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 52,485 people named Jordyn (48,514 women and girls, 3,971 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 60,179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,890 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23,700 |
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 Jordyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jordyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 83 | #459 | 0.8× |
| California | 72 | #469 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 60 | #336 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 40 | #259 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | #291 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 37 | #300 | 1.0× |
| New York | 32 | #523 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 31 | #436 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 31 | #269 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 27 | #392 | 0.9× |
Where Jordyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jordyn is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1979 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 girls’ 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 Jordyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,917 babies since 1880, Jordyn is the most given (78% of them). In 2025 it was given to 889 of their 978 babies (91%), again the most given.
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 Jordyn
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 Jordyn and names like it
- Compare Jordyn and JordinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJordyn peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jordyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jordyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jordyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.