Jórdan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jórdan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden.
- BRBrazil1 in 27Kas Jordania(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 24Kas Jordania
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 Jórdan 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)
7,899 named Jordania, 2022
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jordania in BR Brazil, US United States, DO Dominican Republic and 3 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.
Sources 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 in the world(measured from records)
Jórdan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 7,899as Jordania | 1 in 27K | 8.5K | Jordania | 76 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jordania | 14 |
| US United States | 150as Jordania | 1 in 2.2M | 147 | Jordania | 84 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Jordania | 10 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Jordania | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 20as Jordania | 1 in 255K | 20 | Jordania | 5 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 5 | — | — |
7,899 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Jórdan 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 Icelandic, 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)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jórdan 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.
- Is Jórdan a male or female name?
- Jórdan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jórdan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Jordania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jórdan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jórdan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jórdan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Jórdan in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B3rdanThe 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, “Jórdan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.