Jordy

Where Jordy comes from

Shortened from Jordan + -y, and a modern spelling variant of Geordie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jordy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #3,993 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Jordy Buijs born
    Dutch association football player
  3. 1991
    Jordy Clasie born
    Dutch association football player
  4. 2001
    Peak, #620
    306 babies named Jordy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,272.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Jordan and George.
Namesakes
  • Jordy Clasie · Dutch association football player, born 1991
  • Jordy Buijs · Dutch association football player, born 1988
  • Jordy Caicedo · Ecuadorian association football player, born 1997
  • Jordy Alcívar · Ecuadorian association football player, born 1999
  • Jordy · French singer, born 1988

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.