Is Jordan a male or female name?
Jordan is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 79%, based on 688,344 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 79%
- Sample size
- 688,344
- Confidence
- high
Jordan by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 75% | 533,161 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 100% | 55,580 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | male | 90% | 51,423 | ons |
| Canada CA | male | 85% | 40,367 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | male | 91% | 3,518 | cso |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 1,689 | ine |
| Switzerland CH | male | 97% | 1,335 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 98% | 1,151 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 92% | 120 | statat |
Attested in 20 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AL · AT · AU · BE · BG · CA · CH · EE · ES · FR · GB · IE · ME · MK · NZ · PL · RS · SE · SI · US
Jordan over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Jordan in the 1880s were girls, against 14.5% in the 2020s. In France, 0% of the babies named Jordan in the 1970s were girls, against 1.3% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 158 | — | |
| 1890s | 0% | 117 | — | |
| 1900s | 0% | 123 | — | |
| 1910s | 0% | 395 | — | |
| 1920s | 0% | 855 | — | |
| 1930s | 0% | 770 | — | |
| 1940s | 0% | 690 | — | |
| 1950s | 2% | 1,219 | — | |
| 1960s | 3% | 1,913 | — | |
| 1970s | 13% | 6,285 | 0% | 145 |
| 1980s | 19% | 70,962 | 0% | 5,135 |
| 1990s | 30% | 206,486 | 0% | 34,245 |
| 2000s | 30% | 144,320 | 0% | 11,315 |
| 2010s | 16% | 76,480 | 1% | 3,940 |
| 2020s | 14% | 22,388 | 1% | 780 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Jordan with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Jordan&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Jordan
Is Jordan a male or female name?
Jordan is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 79%, based on 688,344 observations.
Why can the result for Jordan change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Jordan identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.