Mordechai
#965 for boys in 2025, 238 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 315 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,821since 1950
Mordechai over time
Rank among boys' names. Mordechai has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #965 | 238 |
| 2024 | #957 | 237 |
| 2023 | #932 | 243 |
| 2022 | #971 | 233 |
| 2021 | #968 | 230 |
| 2020 | #875 | 258 |
| 2019 | #783 | 297 |
| 2018 | #748 | 315 |
| 2017 | #996 | 203 |
| 2016 | #1,073 | 184 |
| 2015 | #1,103 | 175 |
| 2014 | #1,065 | 184 |
| 2013 | #997 | 197 |
| 2012 | #993 | 200 |
| 2011 | #1,037 | 183 |
| 2010 | #1,143 | 162 |
| 2009 | #1,118 | 165 |
| 2008 | #1,205 | 146 |
| 2007 | #1,188 | 148 |
| 2006 | #1,229 | 136 |
| 2005 | #1,123 | 146 |
| 2004 | #1,053 | 153 |
| 2003 | #964 | 169 |
| 2002 | #1,147 | 124 |
| 2001 | #1,100 | 129 |
| 2000 | #1,175 | 116 |
| 1999 | #1,203 | 106 |
| 1998 | #1,130 | 112 |
| 1997 | #1,110 | 114 |
| 1996 | #1,246 | 89 |
| 1995 | #1,239 | 88 |
| 1994 | #1,163 | 96 |
| 1993 | #1,493 | 62 |
| 1992 | #1,210 | 86 |
| 1991 | #1,297 | 75 |
| 1990 | #1,420 | 62 |
| 1989 | #1,268 | 73 |
| 1988 | #1,239 | 68 |
| 1987 | #1,484 | 48 |
| 1986 | #1,403 | 50 |
| 1985 | #1,371 | 50 |
| 1984 | #1,531 | 40 |
| 1983 | #1,205 | 57 |
| 1982 | #1,441 | 44 |
| 1981 | #1,334 | 49 |
| 1980 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1979 | #1,464 | 41 |
| 1978 | #1,326 | 47 |
| 1977 | #1,515 | 37 |
| 1976 | #1,646 | 32 |
| 1975 | #1,593 | 32 |
| 1974 | #2,459 | 16 |
| 1973 | #1,653 | 28 |
| 1972 | #1,928 | 22 |
| 1971 | #1,745 | 26 |
| 1970 | #1,939 | 21 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
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| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
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| 1953 | #2,709 | 9 |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mordechai! It came in at #2,770, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mordechai is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#267 · 1 in 1,906
- New Jersey#338 · 1 in 2,974
Best ever in a state: #92 in New York, 2018.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #267 | 66 | 1 in 1,906 |
| New Jersey | #338 | 17 | 1 in 2,974 |
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See more about Mordechai
- 8 spots since 2024 (#957 → #965)
- 90 spots since 2020 (#875 → #965)
- 138 spots since 2015 (#1,103 → #965)
- Biggest jump: 248 spots in 2018 (#996 → #748)
- Biggest drop: 93 spots in 2021 (#875 → #968)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2018 at #748 (315 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,766 boys born in 2018 were named Mordechai (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,177 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.8% of all boys named Mordechai (2,100) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 51 | #2,497 (1956) | #3,198 |
| 1960s | 94 | #2,308 (1969) | #2,828 |
| 1970s | 302 | #1,326 (1978) | #1,727 |
| 1980s | 513 | #1,205 (1983) | #1,397 |
| 1990s | 890 | #1,110 (1997) | #1,251 |
| 2000s | 1,432 | #964 (2003) | #1,130 |
| 2010s | 2,100 | #748 (2018) | #994 |
| 2020s | 1,439 | #875 (2020) | #945 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mordechai in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 20,125 of them was named Mordechai, which outranked 88.6% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,153Rahul97
- #1,153Rashard97
- #1,153Tyrel97
- #1,163Mordechai96
- #1,163Cornell96
- #1,163Coy96
- #1,163Deric96
- #1,168Augustine95
- #1,168Blaze95
- #1,168Denis95
Tied with 4 names at #1,163; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.