Jórdân
given name · Latin script
Jórdân is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 208,403 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden. Jórdân is also written ჯორდან in Georgian and 요르단 in Korean (Hangul).
- GYGuyana1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.3K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #429 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 634 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
208,403 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jórdân in other scripts: Georgian and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jordan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinIordanēs(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸορδάνηςIordánēs(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewיַרְדֵּןyardén(measured from records)
From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden.
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jórdân is found
(measured from records)Jórdân counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #99 | 208,403 | 1 in 1.6K | 330K | Jordan | 634 |
| GB United Kingdom | #133 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Jordan | 342 |
| PH Philippines | #515 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Jordan | 121 |
| CA Canada | #142 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 26 | Jordan | 324 |
| DE Germany | #249 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | Jordan | 199 |
| IE Ireland | #97 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Jordan | 117 |
| NZ New Zealand | #108 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Jordan | 154 |
| GY Guyana | — | 694 | 1 in 1.1K | 694 | — | 10 |
208,403 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jórdân mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jórdân?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 208 thousand people named Jórdân, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jordan. After it come United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jórdân most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jórdân is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jórdân?
- In the United States, the national register counted 208,403 people named Jórdân in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Jórdân compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jórdân is the 99th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B3rd%C3%A2nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jórdân” — ranked 101st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.