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Jourdan

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jourdan has been given to 4,193 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 181 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.

Babies named Jourdan, 2024

1 in 478,000

Jourdan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jourdan over time

In 2025, Jourdan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19732025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jourdan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jourdan means

Jourdan is a given name.

The naming story behind Jourdan

Wikidata records Jourdan as a given name. The entity identifier is Q20119950, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,324 girls were recorded with the name Jourdan between 1980 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 181 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,002 in 1990.

In the United States, 1,869 boys were recorded with the name Jourdan between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 89 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,149 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,207 in 2020 to #10,159 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,553 in 2015 to #10,159 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jourdan?

Jourdan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jourdan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jourdan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jourdans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jourdan was born before 1994 — so the typical Jourdan is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,324
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (1,262).

Is Jourdan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (181)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,002
1990

Spellings of Jourdan

Jourdan is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 63.4% against Jourdan's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jourdan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Jourdan was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 128,398 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jourdan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Jourdan is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jourdan was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 223,727 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jourdan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jourdan around the world

Where Jourdan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2000
    #3,912
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1987–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jourdan

People whose public names include Jourdan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jourdan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,002
1990
Peak year
1990
181 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,324
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,159
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,952
Best rank ever
#1,149
1990
Peak year
1990
89 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,869
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Jourdan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jourdan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jourdan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jourdan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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