Mordechai

Where Mordechai comes from

Mordechai 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. 1930
    Mordechai Gur born
    Israeli politician
  2. 1944
    Mordechai Spiegler born
    Israeli footballer and manager
  3. 1950
    First appearance
    #2,770 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2018
    Peak, #748
    315 babies named Mordechai — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Mordechai Spiegler · Israeli footballer and manager, born 1944
  • Mordechai Gur · Israeli politician, 1930–1995
  • Mordechai Nurock · Israeli politician, 1879–1962
  • Mordechai Aby Serour · Moroccan rabbi and explorer, 1826–1886
  • Mordechai Rachamim · born 1946

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.