Gorden
Gorden is an English variant of Gordon. Notable people with the name include:
- English
Meaning & Origin of Gorden
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Gorden is an English variant of Gordon. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Gorden
American parents first put Gorden on the record books as a baby boy name in 1886, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1922, when 82 Gordens were born — ranking #722 that year. About 25% of every Gorden on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Gorden last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Gorden
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Names that sound like Gorden
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About the name Gorden
Gorden is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1886 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Gorden's peak popularity came in 1922 when it ranked #722. Use the chart and map above to compare Gorden's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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