Boy · Scottish place name
Gordon
Say it: GOR-dun
Meaning
From a Scottish place name in Berwickshire and the clan named after it; its Brittonic meaning is uncertain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Popular as a first name after General Charles Gordon in the 1880s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 154,454 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1934, about 1 in 391 boys
- 224 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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