Mordecai

Where Mordecai comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew מָרְדֳּכַי (mordocháy).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mordecai
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,269 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2022
    Peak, #1,706
    99 babies named Mordecai — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

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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.