Mordecai

Hebrew
"follower of Marduk"

Mordecai Origin and Meaning

The name Mordecai is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "follower of Marduk".

Mordecai, although it has a noble heritage, has never caught on in this country, because of its rather weighty image.

Mordecai is a symbolic name for boys born on the holiday of Purim, because this cousin of Queen Esther helped her save the Jews from destruction at the hands of Haman.

Mordecai Richler was a Canadian author and screenwriter whose best known work is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

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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

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