Mordechai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: aus der Bibel übernommener männl (DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Mordechai is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name. Mordechai is also written מרדכי in Hebrew.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 69K
- NLNetherlands1 in 411K
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 Mordechai itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named מרדכי, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mordechai in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled מרדכי in IL Israel, QA Qatar.
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)aus der Bibel übernommener männl. Vom. hebräischer Herkunft (hebr. mördekay »Anhänger des babylonischen
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mordechai, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mordechai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #24 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 341 | 4.4K | מרדכי | 87 |
| US United States | — | 4,847 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Mordechai | 195 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mordechai | 5 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | מרדכי | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 750K | listed | Mordechai | 41 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4as Mordecai | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mordechai Gurb. 1930ILIsraeli politician (1930-1995)
- Mordechai Spieglerb. 1944ILIsraeli footballer and manager
- Mordechai Vanunub. 1954MAIsraeli activist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mordechai mean?
- Recorded meaning: aus der Bibel übernommener männl.
- Is Mordechai a male or female name?
- Mordechai is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Mordechai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named מרדכי in Israel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Cyprus, Qatar and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mordechai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,847 people named Mordechai in 2020, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Mordechai compared with other names?
- In Israel, Mordechai is the 24th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mordechaiThe 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, “Mordechai” — ranked 220th in Israel (CBS Israel). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.