Jordi

Where Jordi comes from

Jordi 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1941
    Jordi Savall born
    Spanish-Catalan composer, conductor, viol player, and musicologist
  2. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,966 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1989
    Jordi Alba born
    Spanish association football player
  4. 1989
    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.
  5. 1999
    Peak, #743
    217 babies named Jordi — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,241.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jordi Alba · Spanish association football player, born 1989
  • Jordi Savall · Spanish-Catalan composer, conductor, viol player, and musicologist, born 1941
  • Jordi Cruyff · Dutch association football manager and former player, born 1974
  • Jordi Masip · Spanish association football player, born 1989
  • Jordi Codina · Spanish footballer, born 1982

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.