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Jordyn vs Jorman

American parents have registered 68,060 Jordyns since 1880, against 52 Jormans. Jordyn is still ahead, with 889 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jordyn against Jorman, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jordyn Jorman

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jordyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Jordyn had 952 and Jorman had 13.

Side by side

  Jordyn Jorman
Total US births 68,06052
Most in one year 3,18114
Babies in 2025 889under 5
Estimated living today 67,00050
Median age today 1631
Peak year 20101994
Best rank 112th girls4,290th boys
Rank in 2025 371stunranked
First recorded 19791993
Girls / boys 62,171 / 5,8890 / 52

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jormans alive today are over 31; half the Jordyns are over 16. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jordyn and Jorman.