Jordan is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, France, England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Jordan
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland, France, England
Meaning:

Is the 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.

Is the variant 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.

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.

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.

How popular is Jordan?

Jordan is common in United States, England, Germany, Philippines, Australia, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, Ireland, Venezuela, Bolivia, South Africa, Colombia, Panama, Switzerland, Peru, Argentina, France, Barbados, New Zealand, Tanzania, Austria, Cuba, Guatemala, Poland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, Wales, Slovenia, Brazil, Chile, Guyana, Nigeria, Chad, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Thailand, Netherlands, Russia, Micronesia, Czechia, Italy, Belgium, India, Iran, Jamaica, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Liberia, Uruguay, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Sweden, Bahamas, Finland, Singapore, Fiji, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Suriname.

Jordan is ranked 1231 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Jordan bearers increased by 5.67 per cent in 2010 US census to 208403 since 2000, the surname slipped by 11 spots and ranked at 116. The last name was found in around 7 per ten thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 61.44 64.3
Black 30.73 30.06
Hispanic or Latino 4.11 2.86
Others 2.45 1.67
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.72 0.68
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.55 0.44
Jordan is quite popular family name mostly used in United States however Barbados lie ahead in terms of density. Around 431914 people have been found who wears Jordan as their family name. Jordan is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundred thousands of Jordan:
110 United States250,274
Countries with ten thousands of Jordan:
204 England31,218
357 Germany24,137
605 Philippines14,714
308 Australia11,597
Countries with thousands of Jordan:
653 Spain8,908
565 Canada8,727
1,541 Mexico6,269
508 Ecuador5,406
185 Ireland4,755
758 Venezuela4,530
429 Bolivia4,304
1,758 South Africa3,889
1,265 Colombia3,507
198 Panama3,474
317 Switzerland3,121
1,486 Peru3,010
1,354 Argentina2,805
2,896 France2,718
10 Barbados2,433
255 New Zealand2,382
3,406 Tanzania1,857
553 Austria1,736
706 Cuba1,691
1,071 Guatemala1,636
3,995 Poland1,453
670 Scotland1,408
301 Northern Ireland1,299
163 Trinidad and Tobago1,242
287 Wales1,190
Countries with hundreds of Jordan:
333 Slovenia953
9,602 Brazil858
1,321 Chile841
134 Guyana801
14,240 Nigeria720
2,465 Chad674
672 El Salvador672
7,156 Saudi Arabia636
20,738 Indonesia595
752 Honduras587
1,270 Dominican Republic555
1,758 Georgia481
26,170 Thailand432
6,669 Netherlands428
36,540 Russia386
65 Micronesia357
5,395 Czechia321
29,520 Italy296
7,087 Belgium265
89,150 India259
21,413 Iran253
1,291 Jamaica223
3,257 Norway210
2,770 Denmark209
4,262 Croatia205
2,192 Liberia198
2,081 Uruguay187
12,456 Zimbabwe180
5,702 Papua New Guinea177
327 French Polynesia160
4,772 Sweden158
381 Bahamas131
5,288 Finland130
1,626 Singapore128
1,425 Fiji126
878 Puerto Rico117
14,543 Malaysia114
1,155 Suriname109
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
22,820 Japan98
1,894 Paraguay98
848 China95
5,195 Portugal94
6,063 Bosnia and Herzegovina75
25,589 Greece71
190 Isle of Man71
172 Guernsey66
19,468 Malawi63
7,015 Botswana61
4,582 Bahrain59
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
325 Jersey49
30,298 Kazakhstan46
6,362 Namibia45
14,059 United Arab Emirates45
2,306 Cyprus44
581 Saint Lucia44
7,946 Latvia39
6,408 Estonia38
5,404 Taiwan31
609 United States Virgin Islands30
10,128 Afghanistan29
35,686 Belarus29
14,967 Kuwait29
1,267 Abkhazia27
390 Bermuda27
25,782 Hungary27
560 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines26
908 Guam25
3,095 Hong Kong24
1,021 Malta24
25,726 Uzbekistan22
1,683 Belize20
33,464 Israel20
40,422 Slovakia20
2,896 Costa Rica19
48,082 Egypt19
641 Marshall Islands18
3,129 Nicaragua18
4,719 New Caledonia16
2,069 Iceland14
13,893 Jordan14
389 Northern Mariana Islands14
11,540 Ghana13
34,235 Ivory Coast13
11,967 North Macedonia13
3,233 Montenegro13
26,891 Qatar12
53,791 Romania12
509 Saint Kitts and Nevis12
9,616 Solomon Islands12
85,117 Uganda12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
903 South Korea10
15,755 Azerbaijan9
820 Cayman Islands9
182,877 DR Congo9
865 Grenada9
14,059 Lebanon9
72,658 Pakistan9
130,497 Turkey9
118,056 Cameroon8
30,722 Moldova8
34,534 Bulgaria7
51,431 Kenya7
282 Nauru7
33,397 Zambia7
1,436 Antigua and Barbuda6
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 20 years old maid Mary Jordan who was residing in Ireland migrated to USA on May 18, 1846 by Perseverence put out from Dublin. Workwoman Margrate Jordan, James Jordan (28), 22 years old Mary Jordan, Biddy Jordan, aged 18, 40 years old Thomas Jordan, Margt. Jordan (45) Workwoman, Workman John Jordan, 28 years old Nancy Jordan, and 309 other Jordan around 53.25% of whom were workman while others worked as dressmaker and spinster, farmer, mechanic, carpenter, butcher, tinner migrated to US.

From Italy

Miner Pietro Jordan from Italy aboard the La Bourgogne from Havre. He is registered to be 15 years old when he arrived in Meckeerport on April 1, 1895. 28 years old Miguel Jordan, 40 years old Pietro Jordan, Pietro Jordan (45) Miner, are other Jordan that migrated to US from Aspinwall, Panama and Havre.

From Germany

Farmer Johann Jordan from Wurtemberg aboard the Samuel M Fox from Havre. He is registered to be 20 years old when he arrived in USA on November 10, 1852. Farmer Albert Jordan, Farmer Marie Jordan, Farmer Georg Jordan, Laborer Edouard Jordan, Christian Jordan (16) Farmer, Albert Jordan, aged 30, Catharina Jordan (55) Farmer, Farmer Nicolas Jordan, Emil Jordan (23) Laborer, and 892 other Jordan around 37.61% of whom were farmer while others worked as laborer and merchant, servant, shoemaker, mason, farmer and mechanic, carpenter, daughter, painter, watchmaker, joiner, blacksmith, smith, tailor, bricklayer, baker, brewer, clerk, butcher, turner, miller, hair dresser, barber, weaver, musician, confectioner, tourist, engineer, wheelwright migrated to US from Havre, Antwerp, Bremen and Hamburg.

Jordan Namesakes

  • Alfonso Jordan, Count of Tripoli
  • Lonnie Jordan, American singer-songwriter
  • Luther Jordan, Luther Henry Jordan, Jr
  • Archibald Campbell Jordan, novelist
  • Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm
  • Roland C. Jordan, American composer and music theorist
  • Samuel Jordan, early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown
  • I. King Jordan,
  • Larry Jordan, American independent filmmaker
  • Simon Jordan, English businessman
  • Virgil Jordan, economist and author
  • F. W. Jordan, British physicist
  • Pat Jordan, British Trotskyist
  • Karl Jordan, German-British entomologist
  • Janice Jordan, candidate for U.S. Vice President
  • Edward S. Jordan, American entrepreneur
  • Charley Jordan, American, St
  • Samuel M. Jordan, American presbyterian missionary in Persia
  • Henri Jordan, German classical scholar
  • Payton Jordan, head coach of the 1968 United States Olympic track and field team
  • Deirdre Jordan, Australian academic and educator
  • Thomasina Jordan, American Indian activist
  • Brent Jordan, American author
  • List of career achievements by Michael Jordan,
  • Bill Jordan, Baron Jordan, British economist and Labour politician
  • Jacob Jordan, seigneur
  • Timothée Jordan, member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics
  • Pearse Jordan, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer
  • Rhoda Jordan, actor and screenwriter
  • Winthrop Jordan, professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism
  • Nicole Jordan, best-selling American author of romance novels
  • Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, American historian
  • Philippe Jordan, Swiss conductor
  • James B. Jordan, American Protestant theologian and author
  • Johann Christoph Jordan, German bureaucrat and antiquary
  • Robert Furneaux Jordan, English architect
  • Jeremiah Jordan, Irish nationalist politician from County Fermanagh
  • Henryk Jordan, Polish philanthropist
  • Billy Jordan, Irish association football player during the 1930s
  • Ambrose L. Jordan, American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
  • Henri de Jordan, painter
  • Ruth Jordan, schoolteacher from Sedona, Arizona
  • Patrick W. Jordan, British/American writer and consultant
  • Camille Jordan, French mathematician
  • Pascual Jordan, German theoretical and mathematical physicist
  • Michael I. Jordan, American scientist
  • Carole Jordan, British physicist, astrophysicist
  • V. Craig Jordan, scientist specializing
  • Michael Jordan, American former professional basketball player
  • Robert Jordan, James Oliver Rigney Jr
  • Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist whose technique involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands
  • Hussein of Jordan, reigned as King of Jordan
  • Dorothea Jordan, Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan
  • Abdullah II of Jordan, has been King of Jordan since 1999
  • Louis Jordan, pioneering American musician

Jordan Namesakes

  • Alfonso Jordan, Count of Tripoli
  • Lonnie Jordan, American singer-songwriter
  • Luther Jordan, Luther Henry Jordan, Jr
  • Archibald Campbell Jordan, novelist
  • Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm
  • Roland C. Jordan, American composer and music theorist
  • Samuel Jordan, early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown
  • I. King Jordan,
  • Larry Jordan, American independent filmmaker
  • Simon Jordan, English businessman
  • Virgil Jordan, economist and author
  • F. W. Jordan, British physicist
  • Pat Jordan, British Trotskyist
  • Karl Jordan, German-British entomologist
  • Janice Jordan, candidate for U.S. Vice President
  • Edward S. Jordan, American entrepreneur
  • Charley Jordan, American, St
  • Samuel M. Jordan, American presbyterian missionary in Persia
  • Henri Jordan, German classical scholar
  • Payton Jordan, head coach of the 1968 United States Olympic track and field team
  • Deirdre Jordan, Australian academic and educator
  • Thomasina Jordan, American Indian activist
  • Brent Jordan, American author
  • List of career achievements by Michael Jordan,
  • Bill Jordan, Baron Jordan, British economist and Labour politician
  • Jacob Jordan, seigneur
  • Timothée Jordan, member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics
  • Pearse Jordan, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer
  • Rhoda Jordan, actor and screenwriter
  • Winthrop Jordan, professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism
  • Nicole Jordan, best-selling American author of romance novels
  • Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, American historian
  • Philippe Jordan, Swiss conductor
  • James B. Jordan, American Protestant theologian and author
  • Johann Christoph Jordan, German bureaucrat and antiquary
  • Robert Furneaux Jordan, English architect
  • Jeremiah Jordan, Irish nationalist politician from County Fermanagh
  • Henryk Jordan, Polish philanthropist
  • Billy Jordan, Irish association football player during the 1930s
  • Ambrose L. Jordan, American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
  • Henri de Jordan, painter
  • Ruth Jordan, schoolteacher from Sedona, Arizona
  • Patrick W. Jordan, British/American writer and consultant
  • Camille Jordan, French mathematician
  • Pascual Jordan, German theoretical and mathematical physicist
  • Michael I. Jordan, American scientist
  • Carole Jordan, British physicist, astrophysicist
  • V. Craig Jordan, scientist specializing
  • Michael Jordan, American former professional basketball player
  • Robert Jordan, James Oliver Rigney Jr
  • Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist whose technique involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands
  • Hussein of Jordan, reigned as King of Jordan
  • Dorothea Jordan, Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan
  • Abdullah II of Jordan, has been King of Jordan since 1999
  • Louis Jordan, pioneering American musician

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