Recorded 1973–2025 · United States
Jourdan was most popular in 1990, when 270 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,353 that year. In 2025 it ranked #20,040, with 7 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,193 people named Jourdan.
Jourdan first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1973, which makes it about 52 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 49 of the 53 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,193 American births named Jourdan between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,102 are estimated to be alive today.
7 American babies were named Jourdan in 2025, ranking #20,040 that year.
Jourdan is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 19 births a year, against 48 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -60% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Jourdan is a unisex name — 55.4% of the 4,193 Americans given it were girls and 44.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 2015 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 35% girls and 65% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,102 Americans named Jourdan are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 30 years old, and half are between 24 and 35. That is a narrow band: Jourdan arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org