Mordecai

MAWR-duh-kie

Hebrew

"follower of Marduk"

Mordecai Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1152 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Mordecai

• 1152 Nameberry 2025
• 941 Unique 2023

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Famous People Named Mordecai

• Mordecai who returned to Judah with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 7:7)
• Mordecai servant of King Ahasuerus (possibly Xerxes I); cousin of Queen Esther, who helped save the Hebrews
• Mordecai Richler Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist
• Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Finger" Brown American baseball player
• Mordecai Menahem Kaplan Lithuanian,American rabbi and educator

The name Mordecai in Pop Culture

• Mordecai the Blue Jay character on TV's "Regular Show"
• Mordecai Richie's pet hawk in movie "The Royal Tenenbaums"
• Mordecai character in video game "Borderlands"
• Mordecai Ali van Allen O'Shea made,up name from "Oh the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss
• Mordecai Cohen Mirah's consumptive brother, a visionary young Jew, in "Daniel Deronda" (1874,6) by George Eliot
• Mr Mordecai character in "The Absentee" (1812) by Maria Edgeworth
• Mordecai Himmelfarb ex,professor of English, a Jewish immigrant to Austria, in Patrick White's "Riders in the Chariot" (1961)
• Mordecai Jones legendary con man in "The Ballad of the Flim,Flam Man" (1965, rev. 1967) by Guy Owen

International Variations of the name Mordecai

• Motl Yiddish
• Motke Yiddish