Yordan
Just 76 men in Poland carry it, and the records show none given to a newborn since at least 2000. A Hebrew name meaning "flowing down" or "descending".
Yordan Pronunciation
Yordan is pronounced ih-OR-dahn (/ɨˈɔrdan/).
What Yordan means
Where Yordan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yordan begins in Hebrew, in a verb that means to go down. From the same root comes Yarden, the old name for the river that runs from the highlands toward the Dead Sea. The short meaning attached to Yordan stays close to that: flowing down, descending.
Water gave the name its sense. A river does not climb. It moves toward the lower ground, and the Hebrew root marks exactly that motion. The Polish gloss keeps it plain, płynący w dół.
On a Polish class register Yordan sits among longer names and reads at once. It is short. The final sound lands hard, and a teacher calling it rarely stumbles. The bearer inherits the river's direction, the descent that Hebrew named first.
How many people are named Yordan
1 in 280871 men in Poland is named Yordan. 76 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4113 among male names.
Yordan as a middle name
Yordan is a first name for 76 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 9093rd, between Yon (2) and Yordany (2).
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#9091 Yogendra2
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#9092 Yon2
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#9093 Yordan2
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#9094 Yordany2
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#9095 Yoshua2