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Gordan

Boys' name

Proud

Gordan has been given to 1,025 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1930, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Gordan, 2018

1 in 586,000

Gordan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gordan: meaning, origin, and history

Proud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gordan means

Gordan means “proud”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gordan is used in Serbian and Croatian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡǒr.dan/ for Gordan.

Origin, language, and formation

Gordan is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Gordan is pronounced /ɡǒrdan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,025 boys were recorded with the name Gordan between 1912 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,470 in 1931.

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 Gordan?

Gordan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gordan 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gordan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gordans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gordan was born before 1946 — so the typical Gordan is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Gordan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (24)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,470
1931

Spellings of Gordan

Gordan is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 42.0% against Gordan's 0.11%.

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.

Gordan around the world

Where Gordan 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.

  • Ireland
    1966–2001
    #409
    in 2001
  • France
    1969–2002
    #3,988
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1949–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gordan 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
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Best rank ever
#1,470
1931
Peak year
1930
24 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
1,025
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gordan

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

JaidanKaidanBohdanGormanBogdanGordieKaydanZaydanGordenZaidanLandanEidanBraydanJadanHamdanCaidanEydanJaydanJourdanLeodanZidanKadanYordanGorge

Sibling names for Gordan

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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