Górdon
surname · Latin script
Górdon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Derived from a Proto-Brythonic term meaning “spacious fort”.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 532(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.6K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #478 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 569 (measured from records)
- 1 in 386 (inferred from the name graph)
161,833 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gordon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Derived from a Proto-Brythonic term meaning “spacious fort”.
Cited for this meaning 12
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Scottish Surnames
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Górdon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #123 | 161,833 | 1 in 2.1K | 162K | Gordon | 569 |
| GB United Kingdom | #102 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Gordon | 332 |
| CA Canada | #98 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 6 | Gordon | 288 |
| AU Australia | #126 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 61 | Gordon | 282 |
| ZA South Africa | #312 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Gordon | 119 |
| JM Jamaica | #19 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 532 | — | Gordon | 56 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,198 | 1 in 626 | 1.2K | — | 14 |
| IS Iceland | #162 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 4 | Gordon | 14 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 263 | 1 in 386 | 263 | — | 7 |
161,833 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Górdon mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from a Proto-Brythonic term meaning “spacious fort”. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 10 other sources.
- In which country does Górdon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 162 thousand people named Górdon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gordon.
- Where is Górdon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Górdon is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 386 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Górdon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161,833 people named Górdon in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Górdon compared with other names?
- In the United States, Górdon is the 123rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B3rdonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Górdon” — the 123rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.