Jordin

Where Jordin comes from

Jordin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1981
    First appearance
    #10,411 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Jordin Tootoo born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  3. 1989
    Jordin Sparks born
    American singer
  4. 2007
    Peak, #584
    512 babies named Jordin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,185.
  6. 2022
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jordin Sparks · American singer, born 1989
  • Jordin Tootoo · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1983
  • Jordin Andrade · American-Cape Verdean male hurdler, born 1992
  • Jordin Canada · American basketball player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.