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Goran

Boys' name

Forested mountain/hill

Goran has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Goran, 2012

1 in 610,000

Goran over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Goran: meaning, origin, and history

Forested mountain/hill

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Goran means

Goran means “forested mountain/hill”, associated with gora.

Origin, language, and formation

Goran is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Goran is pronounced /ɡǒran/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Goran between 1973 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1974; its best national rank was #3,410 in 1974.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Goran?

Goran had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Goran 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 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Goran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gorans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Goran was born before 1981 — so the typical Goran is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Goran 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (10)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,410
1974

Spellings of Goran

Goran is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 20.5% against Goran's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Goran around the world

Where Goran 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1966–2024
    #6,682
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–1993
    #575
    in 1993
  • Canada
    1996–2002
    #1,817
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1968–2004
    #404
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Goran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,410
1974
Peak year
1974
10 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Goran

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

GordieGorjeAmranDeranOmranGorBaranZyranAaranArranZahranFerranGoroGordyMihranKeeranEzranToranGaranMiranSharanZoranGoreeSoran

Sibling names for Goran

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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