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Gor

#6,579 in 2025Boys' name

Fierce

Gor has been given to 141 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #6,579 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Gor, 2025

1 in 255,000

Gor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gor: meaning, origin, and history

Fierce

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gor means

Gor means “fierce”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 141 boys were recorded with the name Gor between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,535 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,066 in 2020 to #6,579 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Gor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,579
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gor was born before 2017 — so the typical Gor is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
141
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Gor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+6
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,487
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2019 (13)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,535
2019

Where Gor is used

Across 1910–2025, Gor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 285,782 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gor around the world

Where Gor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2005–2021
    #6,645
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,487
Best rank ever
#6,535
2019
Peak year
2019
13 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
141
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Gor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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