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Gordana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gordana has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1971, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Gordana, 1979

1 in 665,000

Gordana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gordana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gordana means

Gordana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gordana is used in Czech, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Gordana is pronounced [ˈɡordana].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 girls were recorded with the name Gordana between 1971 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1971; its best national rank was #6,785 in 1972.

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 Gordana?

Gordana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gordana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gordana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gordanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gordana was born before 1975 — so the typical Gordana is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Gordana 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 1971 (7)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,785
1972

Spellings of Gordana

Gordana is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 91.8% against Gordana's 0.03%.

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.

Where Gordana is used

Across 1910–2025, Gordana was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Gordana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gordana around the world

Where Gordana 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
    1964–2015
    #6,903
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1951–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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

Gordana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,785
1972
Peak year
1971
7 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gordana

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

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Sibling names for Gordana

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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