Given name & surname
Giordano
“flowing down”
In Italian use, Giordano shares an earlier linguistic root with Jordan. One interpretation is “flowing down.”
Original ItalianZordan
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Italian use, Giordano shares an earlier linguistic root with Jordan. One interpretation is “flowing down.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Giordano through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 276
- 276 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,030 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,030 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 430 as a first name in 2020; 15,616 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Giordano’s family of names
Giordano shares a linguistic root with Jordan. In Italian usage, Giordano has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jourdain. In Italian usage, Giordano has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jordan.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Giordano has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Giordano
- Giordano BrunoItalian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
- Jordan of SaxonyGerman Catholic priest, Dominican friar and writer (1190–1237)
- Giordano TurriniItalian racing cyclistborn 1942
- Giordano CotturItalian cyclist (1914–2006)
- Giordano AnsaloneItalian Dominican missionary in Asia1598–1634
- Giordano PiccinottiItalian Roman-Catholic priestborn 1975
- Giordano OrsiniCatholic cardinal1360–1438
- Giordano BenedettiMiddle distance runnerborn 1989
- Giordano CorsiItalian footballer (1908-1958)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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