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Mordecai
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About Mordecai
The name Mordecai peaked for boys at #1715 in 2022. The name is most popular in MORDECAI, MORDECAI, and MORDECAI.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,453 | 52 | 27.1 |
| 2015 | #2,319 | 57 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | #2,080 | 68 | 35.8 |
| 2017 | #2,147 | 64 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | #2,201 | 63 | 34.7 |
| 2019 | #2,057 | 71 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | #1,795 | 84 | 48.7 |
| 2021 | #2,073 | 71 | 40.6 |
| 2022 | #1,715 | 99 | 56.7 |
| 2023 | #1,946 | 80 | 46.8 |
| 2024 | #2,046 | 74 | 43 |
| 2025 | #2,100 | 70 | 41 |
World rankings
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Famous Mordecais
- 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
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
Variations & nicknames
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