Jordaan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɔɹdɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jordaan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6Kas Jordan
- NLNetherlands1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jordaan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
208,403 named Jordan, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jordan in US United States.
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)
Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jordaan 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 | — | 208,403as Jordan | 1 in 1.6K | 330K | Jordan | 87 |
| ZA South Africa | #202 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Jordaan | 96 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,691as Jordan | 1 in 5.8K | 8.7K | Jordaan | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,834as Jordan | 1 in 2.2K | 28K | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,017as Jordan | 1 in 15K | 3K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 709as Jordan | 1 in 3K | 709 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 694as Jordan | 1 in 1.1K | 694 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 604 | 1 in 29K | 1.4K | Jordaan | 29 |
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; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jordaan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, French Huguenot surname from "Jourdan".
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leo Jordaanb. 1885NLDutch radio host (1885-1980)
- Marie Jordaanb. 1948ZAbotanist
- Danny Jordaanb. 1951ZASouth African sportsperson-politician
- Theuns Jordaanb. 1971ZASouth African singer (1971–2021)
- Norman Jordaanb. 1975ZASouth African rugby union player
- Braam Jordaanb. 1981ZASouth African author and film producer
- Zenay Jordaanb. 1991ZArugby player
- Paul Jordaanb. 1992ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Deidré Laurens Jordaanb. 1995ZASouth African badminton player
- Arno JordaanZASouth African singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 604 | #3,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 159 | #116,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jordaan mean, and where does it come from?
- Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jordaan?
- In the etymology graph, Jordan, Giordano and Judd are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jordaan?
- A machine transcription gives /jɔɹdɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jordaan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 208 thousand people named Jordan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jordaan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 604 people named Jordaan in 2007, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Jordaan compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Jordaan is the 202nd most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jordaan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jordaanThe 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, “Jordaan” — the 202nd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.