Jordan Boy Name

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The name Jordan is of Hebrew origin, and is derived from the name of the river Jordan. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jordan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jordan**
Use of the Name Jordan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
266,759	263,324	255,293	123,156	53,616	19,640	9,374

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jordan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jordan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	359	23
1881	406	18
1882	561	12
1883	442	17
1884	358	25
1885	452	17
1886	668	9
1887	531	12
1888	457	18
1889	848	7
1890
1891	542	12
1892	621	12
1893	470	16
1894	510	16
1895	374	26
1896	755	10
1897	668	11
1898	941	7
1899	906	7
1900	822	11
1901	620	12
1902
1903	458	21
1904	846	9
1905	877	9
1906	888	9
1907	759	13
1908	767	13
1909	601	20
1910	902	13
1911
1912	808	30
1913	727	41
1914	730	52
1915	761	62
1916
1917	878	53
1918
1919	976	48
1920	765	75
1921	749	79
1922	944	55
1923	698	86
1924	663	96
1925	640	98
1926	662	91
1927	647	96
1928	665	90
1929	655	89
1930	725	76
1931	580	102
1932	719	75
1933	659	79
1934	647	87
1935	682	78
1936	732	68
1937	708	72
1938	760	65
1939	724	69
1940	845	56
1941	802	62
1942	829	62
1943	737	77
1944	708	77
1945	765	65
1946	784	72
1947	824	71
1948	823	69
1949	805	73
1950	823	69
1951	807	76
1952	771	83
1953	722	98
1954	694	108
1955	711	106
1956	730	101
1957	537	208
1958	567	185
1959	620	155
1960	672	135
1961	575	188
1962	581	180
1963	627	155
1964	611	164
1965	573	179
1966	523	212
1967	503	224
1968	551	187
1969	530	219
1970	487	277
1971	477	289
1972	489	258
1973	448	305
1974	406	369
1975	393	396
1976	335	514
1977	299	647
1978	219	973	781	195
1979	168	1,405	622	282
1980	159	1,613	523	368
1981	101	2,922	443	483
1982	84	3,534	452	469
1983	71	4,003	431	497
1984	65	4,530	380	595
1985	62	5,455	257	974
1986	53	7,289	135	2,080
1987	52	8,398	146	1,904
1988	52	8,478	136	2,128
1989	44	10,862	72	4,274
1990	29	16,125	59	5,955
1991	29	16,012	62	5,561
1992	32	14,018	63	5,362
1993	28	14,749	57	5,823
1994	29	14,149	51	6,259
1995	29	13,556	50	6,477
1996	27	13,835	49	6,292
1997	26	14,742	40	7,161
1998	27	14,384	42	7,106
1999	30	13,023	48	5,722
2000	36	12,129	50	5,805
2001	39	10,766	47	5,796
2002	37	11,081	45	6,136
2003	38	10,266	48	5,620
2004	43	9,374	70	4,397
Totals:		266,759		103,721

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jordan as a boy's name about 72% of the time and less frequently (about 27% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jordan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 120 times during the last 125 years.

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