Across the world, Mordechai (מרדכי 
, Mordechai 
, مردخاي 
, along with others...) is quite a rare masculine forename. The first name Mordechai is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare masculine name, the United States, where it is a rare male name, and Tunisia. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom. Very seldom, Mordechai is the last name as well as the forename.
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| מרדכי | Israel |
| Mordechai | United Kingdom, Ghana, United States, Israel, Hungary |
| مردخاي | Iraq |
| Мордехай | Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan |
| Мордечаи | Russia |
Mordechai is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Mordecai , the player character from the 2009 video game Borderlands, Borderlands 3 and Mordecai Sahmbi , the fictional character from the television series Time Trax.
| mordechai ben hillel German-Jewish Scholar, DE (b. 1240) |
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| mordechai hakohen of safed (b. 1500) |
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| mordechai halberstadt German rabbi, DE (b. 1686) |
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| mordechai levin-cohen (b. 1685) |
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benet mordechai chief rabbi of Moravia and Nikolsburg, HU (b. 1753) |
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| mordechai semach aboab Dutch scientific instrument maker, NL (b. 1707) |
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| mordechai jaffé DE (b. 1740) |
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| benet mordechai HU (b. 1772) |
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mordechai dovid alpert Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi (b. 1850) |
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| mordechai wetzlar German rabbi, DE (b. 1801) |
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| mordechai michael jaffé rabbi (b. 1803) |
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| mordechai joseph halevi leschinski rabbi (b. 1808) |
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mordechai ezrahi Israeli teacher, linguist, and translator (b. 1862) |
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| mordechai salomon (b. 1806) |
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| mordechai of nadvorna rabbi, UA (b. 1824) |
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