Jourdan — #12463 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jourdan

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,324 babies named Jourdan between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jourdan currently holds the #12463 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 181 babies received it in a single year. Jourdan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,861 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jourdan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,262 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jourdan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 192 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Jourdan in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jourdan 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 2,324 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.