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The JOURDAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,393 11978 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 1,844 3207 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +549 -8771 -0.003 -28
Other Countries
Australia 13 70253 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for JOURDAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 227 5786 0.002 18
Louisiana 216 2733 0.005 48
Florida 175 10624 0.001 11
California 163 15211 0.000 5
Michigan 157 8058 0.002 16
Top States for JOURDAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 216 2733 0.005 48
Mississippi 121 2874 0.004 43
Nebraska 43 6280 0.003 25
Vermont 13 6693 0.002 21
Indiana 121 6265 0.002 20

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JOURDAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JOURDAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JOURDAN in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JOURDAN by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JOURDAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the JOURDAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of JOURDAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 340 14.21
White (Hispanic) 79 3.3
Native American/Alaskan 64 2.67
Mixed Race 50 2.09
Asian/Pacific 8 0.33
White (Caucasian) 1,852 77.39

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JOURDAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

JOURDAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of JOURDAN in historical publications

JOURDAN. JOURDUN. See Jordan.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JOURDAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOURDAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JOURDAN

The following words are slight variants of JOURDAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.