Jordan Girl Name

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The name Jordan is of Hebrew origin, and is derived from the name of a river in the Middle East. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jordan has been given to baby girls 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 girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jordan**
Use of the Name Jordan for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
103,721	103,721	103,244	60,512	27,754	10,017	4,397

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

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jordan**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy 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	781	195	219	973
1979	622	282	168	1,405
1980	523	368	159	1,613
1981	443	483	101	2,922
1982	452	469	84	3,534
1983	431	497	71	4,003
1984	380	595	65	4,530
1985	257	974	62	5,455
1986	135	2,080	53	7,289
1987	146	1,904	52	8,398
1988	136	2,128	52	8,478
1989	72	4,274	44	10,862
1990	59	5,955	29	16,125
1991	62	5,561	29	16,012
1992	63	5,362	32	14,018
1993	57	5,823	28	14,749
1994	51	6,259	29	14,149
1995	50	6,477	29	13,556
1996	49	6,292	27	13,835
1997	40	7,161	26	14,742
1998	42	7,106	27	14,384
1999	48	5,722	30	13,023
2000	50	5,805	36	12,129
2001	47	5,796	39	10,766
2002	45	6,136	37	11,081
2003	48	5,620	38	10,266
2004	70	4,397	43	9,374
Totals:		103,721		266,759

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

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