Shem Tov UnisexOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: falling
YardenIn Hebrew: ירדן · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: יַרְדֵּןRomanization: yardén
Yarden (Hebrew: ירדן) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 12,992 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 83 girls and ranked #209. Its peak year was 1994, with 576 babies.
- People in Israel
- 12,992
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 83
- rank #209
- Peak year
- 1994
- 576 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Yarden
In Hebrew letters the name is ירדן, read right to left. Yarden is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "yardén" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- Jordan (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)
- a unisex given name, Yarden, equivalent to English Jordan
- a surname
* Likely from Proto-Semitic *warad-, denoting “to descend”, “to go or come down”, “to stream down”, “to come down to water”, “a place descending to water”, “a watering place”; with cognates found in Arabic وَرَدَ (warada, “to go down or come upon water”), Hebrew יָרַד (yāráḏ, “to go down”), Aramaic ירד (yreḏ, “stream”), and Ge'ez ወረደ (wärädä, “fall down, go down, drain off, pour down”), and Akkadian 𒉿𒊏𒁺𒌝…
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Yarden by year in Israel
How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Yarden
How do you write Yarden in Hebrew?
Yarden is written ירדן in Hebrew (with vowel points: יַרְדֵּן). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "yardén".
How many people in Israel are named Yarden?
12,992 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name ירדן: 8,103 women and 4,889 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Yarden a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 62% of the people named ירדן are women and 38% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
What does the name Yarden mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "Jordan (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)" Etymology: * Likely from Proto-Semitic *warad-, denoting “to descend”, “to go or come down”, “to stream down”, “to come down to water”, “a place descending to water”, “a watering place”; with cognates found in Arabic وَرَدَ (warada, “to go down or come upon water”), Hebrew יָרַד (yāráḏ, “to go down”), Aramaic ירד (yreḏ, “stream”), and Ge'ez ወረደ (wärädä, “fall down, go down, drain off, pour down”), and Akkadian 𒉿𒊏𒁺𒌝…
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.