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Gorden

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Gorden is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 725th, in 1922.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192282 births
Best rank
#725in 1922
Since 1886
2,049people given the name
Babies named Gorden, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,049 boys have been named Gorden in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 82 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 82 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Gorden
1880s6
1890s11
1900s6
1910s282
1920s509
1930s423
1940s284
1950s218
1960s151
1970s85
1980s32
1990s20
2000s12
2010s10

In 1922, its biggest year

Gorden was the 725th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.

Names that rose and fell with Gorden

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.