How popular is “Jordan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jordan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jordan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jordan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jordan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jordan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jordan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jordan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	23	0.000114153		23	-100%
1881	18	0.000093415		18	-100%
1882	12	0.000054168		12	-100%
1883	17	0.000078361		17	-100%
1884	25	0.000102686		25	-100%
1885	17	0.000070582		17	-100%
1886	9	0.00003525		9	-100%
1887	12	0.000048506		12	-100%
1888	18	0.000060105		18	-100%
1889	7	0.000024226		7	-100%
1891	12	0.00004186		12	-100%
1892	12	0.000035888		12	-100%
1893	16	0.000049197		16	-100%
1894	16	0.000047241		16	-100%
1895	26	0.00007407		26	-100%
1896	10	0.000027973		10	-100%
1897	11	0.000031704		11	-100%
1898	7	0.000018351		7	-100%
1899	7	0.000020635		7	-100%
1900	11	0.00002443		11	-100%
1901	12	0.000034701		12	-100%
1902	6	0.000015515		6	-100%
1903	21	0.000055089		21	-100%
1904	9	0.000022306		9	-100%
1905	9	0.00002123		9	-100%
1906	9	0.000021006		9	-100%
1907	13	0.000027934		13	-100%
1908	13	0.000026604		13	-100%
1909	20	0.000039122		20	-100%
1910	13	0.000022007		13	-100%
1911	12	0.000018626		12	-100%
1912	31	0.000031375		31	-100%
1913	41	0.000036056		41	-100%
1914	53	0.00003742		53	-100%
1915	62	0.000033835		62	-100%
1916	36	0.00001861		36	-100%
1917	53	0.000026411		53	-100%
1918	46	0.000021187		46	-100%
1919	48	0.000022746		48	-100%
1920	75	0.000033147		75	-100%
1921	79	0.00003384		79	-100%
1922	54	0.000023589		54	-100%
1923	87	0.000037785		87	-100%
1924	96	0.000040309		96	-100%
1925	98	0.000042001		98	-100%
1926	90	0.0000392		90	-100%
1927	96	0.000041391		96	-100%
1928	89	0.000039364		89	-100%
1929	90	0.000041055		90	-100%
1930	78	0.000035083		78	-100%
1931	102	0.00004847		102	-100%
1932	76	0.000035997		76	-100%
1933	79	0.000039511		79	-100%
1934	86	0.00004141		86	-100%
1935	78	0.000037322		78	-100%
1936	68	0.00003273		68	-100%
1937	71	0.000033323		71	-100%
1938	65	0.000029378		65	-100%
1939	67	0.000030407		67	-100%
1940	57	0.000024754		57	-100%
1941	63	0.000025858		63	-100%
1942	63	0.000023062		63	-100%
1943	78	0.000027634		78	-100%
1944	77	0.000028624		77	-100%
1945	66	0.000024878		66	-100%
1946	72	0.000022533		72	-100%
1947	72	0.000019987		72	-100%
1948	68	0.000019696		68	-100%
1949	74	0.000021235		74	-100%
1950	76	0.000021693	7	69	-82%
1951	75	0.00002036		75	-100%
1952	82	0.00002159		82	-100%
1953	102	0.000026468	5	97	-90%
1954	109	0.000027382		109	-100%
1955	106	0.0000264		106	-100%
1956	106	0.000025709	5	101	-91%
1957	207	0.000049261		207	-100%
1958	192	0.000046445	7	185	-93%
1959	163	0.000039202	5	158	-94%
1960	143	0.000034426	6	137	-92%
1961	193	0.000046592	5	188	-95%
1962	183	0.000045349		183	-100%
1963	154	0.000038907		154	-100%
1964	175	0.000045015	11	164	-87%
1965	187	0.00005158	7	180	-93%
1966	221	0.000063585	8	213	-93%
1967	230	0.000067749	8	222	-93%
1968	196	0.000058015	8	188	-92%
1969	232	0.000066756	9	223	-92%
1970	289	0.000080133	9	280	-94%
1971	298	0.000086821	9	289	-94%
1972	265	0.000084315	8	257	-94%
1973	320	0.00010607	16	304	-90%
1974	408	0.000134211	40	368	-80%
1975	466	0.000154336	68	398	-71%
1976	612	0.000201694	95	517	-69%
1977	760	0.000239257	111	649	-71%
1978	1173	0.00036958	194	979	-67%
1979	1694	0.000509167	283	1411	-67%
1980	1992	0.000578312	372	1620	-63%
1981	3408	0.000985149	484	2924	-72%
1982	4005	0.001141689	470	3535	-77%
1983	4515	0.001303655	500	4015	-78%
1984	5134	0.001471585	594	4540	-77%
1985	6436	0.001803251	975	5461	-70%
1986	9387	0.002638964	2083	7304	-56%
1987	10307	0.002858598	1901	8406	-63%
1988	10618	0.00287358	2128	8490	-60%
1989	15165	0.003944651	4281	10884	-44%
1990	22094	0.005589911	5957	16137	-46%
1991	21581	0.005540316	5561	16020	-48%
1992	19399	0.005050149	5367	14032	-45%
1993	20578	0.005457952	5823	14755	-43%
1994	20420	0.005492713	6259	14161	-39%
1995	20054	0.00547601	6481	13573	-35%
1996	20151	0.005525068	6299	13852	-37%
1997	21927	0.006047578	7166	14761	-35%
1998	21524	0.005851764	7114	14410	-34%
1999	18781	0.005084374	5730	13051	-39%
2000	17977	0.004755941	5809	12168	-35%
2001	16618	0.004439292	5803	10815	-30%
2002	17304	0.004628853	6152	11152	-29%
2003	15980	0.004202698	5650	10330	-29%
2004	14007	0.003665868	4447	9560	-37%
2005	13094	0.003405599	3696	9398	-44%
2006	13481	0.003407572	3546	9935	-47%
2007	13392	0.003349941	3332	10060	-50%
2008	11750	0.002989316	2652	9098	-55%
2009	10765	0.002817934	2096	8669	-61%
2010	9981	0.002700678	1728	8253	-65%
2011	9734	0.002661168	1638	8096	-66%
2012	9250	0.002529142	1423	7827	-69%
2013	8456	0.002319466	1237	7219	-71%
2014	8213	0.002215911	1314	6899	-68%
2015	7543	0.002038146	1218	6325	-68%
2016	6798	0.001852973	1124	5674	-67%
2017	6061	0.001694818	892	5169	-71%
2018	5536	0.001574563	836	4700	-70%
2019	5113	0.001473091	773	4340	-70%
2020	4986	0.001492557	703	4283	-72%
2021	4763	0.001405865	740	4023	-69%
2022	4545	0.001343429	631	3914	-72%
2023	4267	0.001288658	616	3651	-71%
2024	3885	0.001167192	559	3326	-71%

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