Jordan takes its name from the river, itself from a Hebrew root meaning "to flow down" or descend. Used as a given name, it carries associations with movement and passage -- a name historically tied to crossing points and new beginnings rather than a fixed, settled place.
Do not determine or elect any thing, the sign Scorpio being in the ascendant, or when the angles of the figure are oblique, or Mars in any of them, there will happen a false event or success of thy judgment, and especially because Scorpio is a sign of falsity. (Hermes Aph 9)