How Many People Are Named Mordecai?
people named Mordecai are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 238,676 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,650 babies named Mordecai in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
99 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "servant of MARDUK" in Persian. In the Old Testament Mordecai is the cousin and foster father of Esther. He thwarted a plot to kill the Persian king, though he made an enemy of the king's chief advisor Haman.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Mordecai in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Mordecai alive today is about 17 years old, and 82% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Mordecai first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2022, to 99 babies. In 2025, 70 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Mordecai has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,716, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #2,100.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,100 |
| Best rank | #1,716 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,466 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Mordecai alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Mordecai were born in Texas than in any other state: about 75 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mordecai was given 3.9 times as often in New York, 2.4 times in Texas and 1.6 times in California.
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