# Yordan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yordan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 230 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 230 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 70, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 12,241 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,738 |
| 2013 | 6 | 12,081 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,758 |
| 2015 | 9 | 8,721 |
| 2016 | 13 | 6,711 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,734 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,795 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,715 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,443 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,759 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5,863 |
| 2023 | 15 | 6,207 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8,286 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,681 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Yordan

- Yordan Letchkov, Bulgarian footballer
- Yordan Yovchev, Bulgarian artistic gymnast (born 1973)
- Yordan Yovkov, Bulgarian writer (1880–1937)
- Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (1929–2004)
- Yordan Bikov, Bulgarian weightlifter
- Yordan Mitkov, Bulgarian weightlifter
- Yordan Terziyski, Bulgarian politician and architect (born 1984)
- Yordan Minev, Bulgarian footballer
- Yordan Ivanov, Bulgarian historian
- Yordan Álvarez, Cuban baseball player (born 1997)
- Yordan Petkov, Bulgarian footballer
- Yordan Todorov, Bulgarian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.