Yordi
Masculine · “Farmer”
Yordi is Jordi written for a Spanish reader, and Jordi is Catalan for George — Sant Jordi, the patron of Catalonia, whose feast on 23 April is celebrated with books and roses. The Y is the Spanish way of writing the sound the Catalan J makes.
How old is the name Yordi?
Yordi first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Yordi alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 600 people named Yordi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yordi most popular?
Yordi peaked in 2006, reaching #2248 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 3,151 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Geōrgios to Yordi
The story of Yordi
Saint George is the patron of Catalonia as well as of England, and Jordi is one of the commonest Catalan men's names; Sant Jordi's day is the Catalan book festival, said to have inspired World Book Day. The name spread into Latin American use through Spanish, respelled as Yordi and Yordy so that a Spanish reader arrives at the right sound. Dutch footballers named Jordi were widely televised in Latin America in the 1990s, which reinforced it. American records show Yordi from the 1990s in Mexican, Guatemalan and Honduran families, peaking in 2006.
Meaning
Farmer, worker of the earth
From Greek geōrgos, a farmer, from gē, earth, and ergon, work — the settled etymology of George. Catalan Jordi is a direct form of the same name. Yordi is a phonetic Spanish respelling; a separate Dutch Jordi, a pet form of Jordaan, has fed the same spelling through footballers, and the two roads reach the same letters.
How the name formed
- Geōrgios
- Jordi
- Yordi
Related forms: Jordi · Jorge · George · Jordi
Pronouncing Yordi
YOR-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. In Spanish and Catalan alike the vowel is pure and the r is tapped; English speakers say it much as it looks.
Nicknames for Yordi
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
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 200656 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2248reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- +54.5%17 in 2025, from 11
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.
Yordi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jordi in Catalan — related form
- Jorge in Spanish — related form
- George in English — related form
- Jordi in Dutch — related form
Yordis among us
people named Yordi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Yordi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yordi
- #5399
- Yordi on the 2025 chart
- #903
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yordi went to 17 boys in 2025, but Yordy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 903rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,496 places above the chart.
- Yordi17
- Yordy8
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,475 for Yordi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Levan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yordi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Levan climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Levan's path sketches the road Yordi is walking now.
Yordi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Yordi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yordi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and shared with one of the world's great name families.
- The spelling delivers the right sound to a Spanish reader.
- Two syllables and five letters, easy everywhere.
- Jordi, Yordi, Yordy and Jordy are four spellings of one sound.
- English readers will confuse it with Jordan, which is an unrelated name.
- It reads as a nickname to speakers of Catalan, where the full form is the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yordis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Yordi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yordi?
- Yordi is the most-used spelling in US records — 17 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Yordy.
- How popular is the name Yordi in 2025?
- Yordi ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yordi?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Yordi — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yordi with classmates?
- Yordi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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