Names of Jordan JO

CSPD — annual births (2024) records مسك as the commonest given name in Jordan; the names that most distinguish Jordan from the rest of the world are محمد, احمد and محمود.

Written in Arabic.

Population: 11M
Official registers: 5
Name forms recorded: 15K

BBuilt from 5 official registers (2024), 15,448 name forms in our corpus, 6 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

fewerlarger share

Where the names most characteristic of Jordan are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Jordan included.

How names work in Jordan

Names in Jordan follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

ArabicHow these names work →

The most common names in Jordan

RegisterYear2024

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1

CSPD — annual births, 2024 — 5 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#	Name	Bearers recorded	Our rank
1	مسك	2.6K	19
2	سلمى	1.8K	27
3	وتين	1.7K	52
4	مريم	1.3K	17
5	أيلة	1.2K	—

Where the two lists disagree

5 of CSPD — annual births's top 5 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.

CSPD — annual births, 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Jordan on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Jordan

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Jordan holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Sized by how much of the difference between Jordan's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

CSPD — annual births, 2020–2024 (5 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Jordan are written in Arabic (81%) and Latin (19%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

The best-attested names in Jordan, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

CSPD — annual births2024headline (given)
Civil Status and Passport Department (CSPD), Jordan. Counts: newborns. given. 20 forms. 2020–2024.
What we know about this register
Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 57 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count', 'rank']. source note: cspd_annual_births_2020 Re-checked 2026-08-06 (task #42 sweep) for a live per-name existence oracle beyond this auto-backfilled stub: dosweb.dos.gov.jo (DoS) and eservices.cspd.gov.jo (CSPD) e-services portals were reached but their listed services are transaction/ID-authenticated (birth/marriage registration status, passport, smart civil-status card), not a public free-text name-frequency lookup. JorInfo PxWeb remains geo-blocked per jo-dos-births. No new live per-name oracle found; existing tier<=3 catalogue entries stand as the best available JO sources.
Last verified 2026-06-05.
CSPD Jordan — Most frequent newborn names 2024 (annual report)2024
Civil Status & Passports Department (CSPD). Counts: newborns. given. 28 forms. 2024. Licence: public.
What we know about this register
CSPD 2024 annual-report table of most-frequent newborn names by sex WITH COUNTS (top 28 boys + 28 girls). Mohammad 6,253 / Misk 2,634 lead. Transcribed from the CSPD release table-image reported by Radio Al-Balad/AmmanNet (text body quoted only top-2; full table in image). Arabic native + romanization. Distinct from the existing 57-row JO civil_registry set.
Last verified 2026-06-09.
This page from جفرا نيوز presents the most popular names for newborns in Jordan for the year 2023.2023not a population count
jfranews.com.jo. Counts: not recorded. given. 25 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page from جفرا نيوز presents the most popular names for newborns in Jordan for the year 2023.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
The page discusses popular names registered in Jordan, published by أخبار حياة.2025not a population count
akhbarhayat.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2025. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Akhbarhayat (Jordanian news) article on popular registered names; 9-row parquet has count=0 (rank-only: محمد, أحمد, يوسف, عمر...). Better sources: jo-disc-ammannet-net and jo-disc-jfranews-com-jo have actual counts.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
The page reports on the most registered names in the Civil Registration Department in Jordan, published by دقيقة اخبار.2026not a population count
nabd.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2026. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Nabd.com (Jordan news aggregator) article on most registered Jordan names; 6-row parquet has count=0 (rank-only: محمد, أحمد, يوسف, عمر...). Better sources: jo-disc-ammannet-net and jo-disc-jfranews-com-jo have actual counts.
Last verified 2026-05-12.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

Arab Naming Conventionspaper
Arabic nameencyclopaedia
How Arabic Names Work: A Guide to Ism, Nasab, Laqab, Nisba, and Kunyaweb
Iraqiweb
Naming Conventions throughout the Arab Worldweb
Understanding Arabic Naming Conventionsweb

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Jordan?: مسك, according to CSPD — annual births (2024), with 2,634 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Jordan?: Because they count different people. CSPD — annual births (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is مسك. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is محمد. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Jordan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/JO (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from CSPD — annual births.