Mordechai — #962 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mordechai

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,578 babies named Mordechai between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mordechai currently holds the #962 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 315 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mordechai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Mordechai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,433 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Mordechai in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mordechai 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 6,578 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.