Djordan meaning | Last name Djordan origin

Variant of Jurdan. See Jordan - Not, as has been fancifully conjectured, from the river Jordan, in Crusading times, but from Jour dain, an early Norman baptismal name, probably corrupted from the Lat. Hodiernus, which was a not uncommon personal name of the same period. It may be remarked that the names Jourdain and Hodierna, the feminine form, occur almost contemporaneously in the pedigree of Sackville. Marin's Dutch Dict. defines Jorden as Gregory, "cen man's naam, Gregoire, nom d'homme."

"The family of Jordan is of Anglo-Norman origin. The first settler in Wales was Jordan de Cantington, one of the companions of Martin de Tours, in his conquest of Kemmes, temp. William I." B.L.G.

The is variant of Jordan. Not, as has been fancifully conjectured, from the river Jordan, in Crusading times, but from Jour dain, an early Norman baptismal name, probably corrupted from the Lat. Hodiernus, which was a not uncommon personal name of the same period. It may be remarked that the names Jourdain and Hodierna, the feminine form, occur almost contemporaneously in the pedigree of Sackville. Marin's Dutch Dict. defines Jorden as Gregory, "cen man's naam, Gregoire, nom d'homme."

"The family of Jordan is of Anglo-Norman origin. The first settler in Wales was Jordan de Cantington, one of the companions of Martin de Tours, in his conquest of Kemmes, temp. William I." B.L.G.

Family name is form of Jordan. Descendant of Jordan or Jourdain meaning "flowing down," a personal name sometimes given to one who was baptized with holy water from the River Jordan.

Variant form of Jourdan. See Jordan - Not, as has been fancifully conjectured, from the river Jordan, in Crusading times, but from Jour dain, an early Norman baptismal name, probably corrupted from the Lat. Hodiernus, which was a not uncommon personal name of the same period. It may be remarked that the names Jourdain and Hodierna, the feminine form, occur almost contemporaneously in the pedigree of Sackville. Marin's Dutch Dict. defines Jorden as Gregory, "cen man's naam, Gregoire, nom d'homme."

"The family of Jordan is of Anglo-Norman origin. The first settler in Wales was Jordan de Cantington, one of the companions of Martin de Tours, in his conquest of Kemmes, temp. William I." B.L.G.