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Gordie

#7,847 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Diminutive of Gordon

Gordie has been given to 292 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #7,847 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1955, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% boys, 27% girls all-time.

Babies named Gordie, 2025

1 in 332,000

Gordie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Gordie over time

In 2025, Gordie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19012025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Gordie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Gordon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gordie means

Gordie is a diminutive of Gordon.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gordie → Gordon. The family’s meaning is “spacious fort”, recorded in the naming reference for Gordon.

Origin, language, and formation

Gordie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gordon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 213 boys were recorded with the name Gordie between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1955; its best national rank was #1,312 in 1905.

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Gordie between 1901 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,557 in 1901.

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 Gordie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,847
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gordie 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gordie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gordies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gordie was born before 1955 — so the typical Gordie is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
121
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1950s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Gordie 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
83.3%
Peak was 1955 (12)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,312
1905

Spellings of Gordie

Gordie is not the most common spelling — Gordon is, with 78.2% against Gordie'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.

Where Gordie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Gordie was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 656,916 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 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. Gordie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Gordie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Gordie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,767 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 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. Gordie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gordie around the world

Where Gordie 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.

  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gordie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,847
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,312
1905
Peak year
1955
12 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
213
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,557
1901
Peak year
1917
11 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
1926
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gordie

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

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Sibling names for Gordie

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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