Jourdon
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/ʒuʀdŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jourdon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
31 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Middx. of uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle English juce, jouce (Old French jus), ‘a liquid extract obtained by boiling herbs’, although this seems an unlikely origin for a nickname, even for an apothecary, as suggested in Reaney and Wilson. Whatever its etymology, it is not certain that the medieval name has survived. Rare post-medieval examples of Jouce may be scribal errors for Joyce , while Juce is likely to be a mistaken transcription of Ince .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jourdon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 31 | 1 in 1.5M | 31 | Jourdon | 18 |
| US United States | — | — | 142 | Jourdon | 16 |
| FR France | — | — | 38 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | — | 1 | — | — |
31 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 70 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 37 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 22 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Jourdon mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Jourdon?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒuʀdŋ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Jourdon have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 31 people named Jourdon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jourdon.
- Where is Jourdon most common?
- Jourdon is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jourdon?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 31 people named Jourdon, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jourdonThe 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, “Jourdon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.