Jordann
Feminine · “the one that goes down”
Jordann is given to both — 1,042 girls and 59 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Jordann doubles a consonant at the end to mark a girl, which is a genuinely American piece of orthography. Ryann, Alexann, Jordann: the extra letter changes nothing audible and signals, to an American reader, that the child is a daughter. No other English-speaking country does this.
How old is the name Jordann?
Jordann first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Jordann alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 1,000 people named Jordann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jordann most popular?
Jordann peaked in 1990, reaching #2029 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From a Hebrew verb meaning to descend names a river to Jordann
The story of Jordann
The doubling habit is worth watching because it is so recent and so consistent. American families wanting a surname-name or a men's name for a daughter needed a way to mark it on the page without changing the sound, and the two solutions that emerged were a final y or i in place of ie or ey, and a doubled final consonant. Both do the same job: they leave the name intact in the ear and alter it in the eye. It is a small piece of writing-system invention carried out by parents rather than by anybody with authority, and it has spread across a whole class of names in about forty years.
Meaning
the one that goes down
The river's name comes from a Hebrew verb meaning to descend, and it is a plain description: the Jordan falls from the slopes of Hermon to the lowest exposed point on the surface of the earth, and it does very little else. The name came into European use through crusaders who brought water home to baptize their children, and it has been a first name in English since the Middle Ages — for men originally, and for both sexes now.
How the name formed
- a Hebrew verb meaning to descend names a river
- crusaders bring the name to Europe
- Jordan used as a first name for men in English
- American families mark the women's version by doubling the final letter
- Jordann appears in the record at the end of the 1970s
Related forms: Jordan · Jourdain · Giordano
Pronouncing Jordann
JOR-dun
Two syllables, stress at the front, identical to the standard spelling. The doubled letter is entirely a matter of the eye.
Nicknames for Jordann
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 199066 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2029reached in 1990
- Change vs 2019
- −53.8%6 in 2021, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jordann in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jordan in English — spelling variant
- Jourdain in French — same name
- Giordano in Italian — same name
Jordanns among us
people named Jordann are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jordann sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The name behind it is one of the oldest place names in continuous use anywhere.
- It works for a child of either sex, and the record carries it on both sides.
- Jordy is available and works at any age.
- The extra letter will be dropped by every clerk and database she encounters.
- The spelling marks the name as a girl's to Americans and as an error to everybody else.
- It is closely dated to the last decades of the century.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Jordann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Jordann is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jordann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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