Mordechi
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mordechi has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 5 recorded.
Babies named Mordechi, 1990
1 in 790,000
Mordechi over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mordechi?
Mordechi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 411,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mordechi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mordechi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mordechis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mordechi was born before 1990 — so the typical Mordechi is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Mordechi 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (5)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Mordechi
Mordechi is not the most common spelling — Mordechai is, with 80.5% against Mordechi's 0.06%.
Mordechi around the world
Where Mordechi 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 & Wales2002–2016#4,810in 2016
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Mordechi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mordechi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mordechi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.