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Jordan

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Hebrew name from the river יַרְדֵן (Yarden) between the countries of Jordan and Israel. Hebrew יָרַד (yarad) = 'descend, to flow down' [1] [2]

2) Younger form of Jornand [3]

3) Younger form of the Germanic name Jordanes see JARD (name element) [1]

Related Names

Iodde ♂
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 Old Swedish
Iudde ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Old Norse
Jordan ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Swedish
Jordana ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish

See also Iute and Jörn and Yordanos

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jordan
Genitive: Jordans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jordan
Genitive: Jordanin
Partitive: Jordania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jordan
Genitive: Jordans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jordan
Genitive: Jordans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
583 878 36 79 547 799
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 283
n.a.
 22
n.a.
 261
Denmark Denmark[6]
109
n.a.
 4
n.a.
 105
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
8 12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
82
n.a.
 11
n.a.
 71
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Jordan (m) Sources: [4][6][8][5]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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