Meaning not yet researched.
Mordechai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 238 in 2025. Its best rank was #750 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #750 in 2018; #967 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mordechai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#967 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #750.
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Mordechai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 238 boys in 2025. Peak: #750 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 315 (2018).
In 2025, 238 US boys were named Mordechai, making it the 967th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #959 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 237 boys named Mordechai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #750, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 315. For comparison, it was #1,104 in 2015 and #2,950 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mordechai in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 8 babies. In all, 6,821 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,100 babies named Mordechai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,438 US boys were named Mordechai; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 315. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,177 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mordechai ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #134 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mordecai (1,650 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Mordechai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 144 | #134 | #196 |
| New Jersey | 70 | #139 | #195 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 238 | #967 |
| 2024 | — | — | 237 | #959 |
| 2023 | — | — | 243 | #933 |
| 2022 | — | — | 233 | #972 |
| 2021 | — | — | 230 | #972 |
| 2020 | — | — | 258 | #877 |
| 2019 | — | — | 297 | #784 |
| 2018 | — | — | 315 | #750 |
| 2017 | — | — | 203 | #1,002 |
| 2016 | — | — | 184 | #1,075 |
| 2015 | — | — | 175 | #1,104 |
| 2014 | — | — | 184 | #1,067 |
| 2013 | — | — | 197 | #997 |
| 2012 | — | — | 200 | #999 |
| 2011 | — | — | 183 | #1,039 |
| 2010 | — | — | 162 | #1,147 |
| 2009 | — | — | 165 | #1,124 |
| 2008 | — | — | 146 | #1,207 |
| 2007 | — | — | 148 | #1,192 |
| 2006 | — | — | 136 | #1,235 |
| 2005 | — | — | 146 | #1,125 |
| 2004 | — | — | 153 | #1,057 |
| 2003 | — | — | 169 | #965 |
| 2002 | — | — | 124 | #1,151 |
| 2001 | — | — | 129 | #1,107 |
| 2000 | — | — | 116 | #1,184 |
| 1999 | — | — | 106 | #1,208 |
| 1998 | — | — | 112 | #1,131 |
| 1997 | — | — | 114 | #1,114 |
| 1996 | — | — | 89 | #1,255 |
| 1995 | — | — | 88 | #1,241 |
| 1994 | — | — | 96 | #1,167 |
| 1993 | — | — | 62 | #1,505 |
| 1992 | — | — | 86 | #1,217 |
| 1991 | — | — | 75 | #1,303 |
| 1990 | — | — | 62 | #1,430 |
| 1989 | — | — | 73 | #1,279 |
| 1988 | — | — | 68 | #1,247 |
| 1987 | — | — | 48 | #1,499 |
| 1986 | — | — | 50 | #1,413 |
| 1985 | — | — | 50 | #1,381 |
| 1984 | — | — | 40 | #1,551 |
| 1983 | — | — | 57 | #1,213 |
| 1982 | — | — | 44 | #1,459 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,355 |
| 1980 | — | — | 34 | #1,717 |
| 1979 | — | — | 41 | #1,482 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,340 |
| 1977 | — | — | 37 | #1,532 |
| 1976 | — | — | 32 | #1,667 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,618 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,525 |
| 1973 | — | — | 28 | #1,688 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,954 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,768 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,971 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,379 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,027 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,915 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,575 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,720 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,506 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,556 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,225 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,037 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,805 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,331 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,839 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,595 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,404 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,846 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,084 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,950 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).