Iordan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iordan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded 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).
- RORomania≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria1 in 142as Йордан
- USUnited States1 in 735as Jordan
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 Iordan 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
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
452,330 named Jordan, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yordan in US United States, Йордан in BG Bulgaria and Јордан in MK North Macedonia.
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 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iordan 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 | — | 452,330as Jordan | 1 in 735 | 330K | Yordan | 134 |
| BG Bulgaria | #14 | 49,127as Йордан | 1 in 142 | 49K | Йордан | 138 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 27,622as Jordan | 1 in 612 | 28K | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,839as Jordan | 1 in 22K | 9.8K | — | 1 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Iordan | 74 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,991as Jordan | 1 in 1.7K | 3K | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 2,389as Јордан | 1 in 890 | 2.4K | Јордан | 31 |
452,330 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling jordan. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSI — most common given names (population); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Iordan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, IORDÁN, iordane, s. n. Bobotează; slujbă religioasă care se face la bobotează. ◊ Expr. (Fam.) A umbla cu iordane = a spune vorbe goale; a se ține de lucruri neserioase.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In ang, the Jordan river in Asia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Iorgu Iordanb. 1888RORomanian linguist (1888-1986)
- Irina Nikolaevna Iordanb. 1910RUSoviet composer (1910-1977)
- Gabriel Jordain-Dorobantsub. 1958ROnot in their usual nameRomanian poet
- Iulia Iordanb. 1981RORomanian writer of children's books
- Adrian Iordanb. 2001Moldovan athletics competitor (born 2001)
- Andrei IordanROPh.D. University of Bucharest 1983
- Alexandra-Raluca IordanROresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Iordan 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 Iordan?
- In the etymology graph, Jordan, Giordano and Jordon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Iordan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 452 thousand people named Jordan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Iordan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 452,330 people named Jordan in 2020, about 1 in 735 residents.
- How common is Iordan compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Iordan is the 14th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iordanThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Iordan” — the 14th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.