Gorden
Gorden was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 2,049 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gorden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gorden?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,799, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1922, the peak
Gorden peaked in 1922, when 82 boys were given it, #725 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,799 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,818 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,006 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,256 | 3.5 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,335 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,318 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,896 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,661 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,465 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,839 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #5,225 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,132 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,606 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,404 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,969 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,776 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,151 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,964 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,204 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,717 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,440 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,037 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,428 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,415 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,639 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,667 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,529 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,786 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,004 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,741 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,562 | 12.6 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,837 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,934 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,829 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,611 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,223 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,307 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,925 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #1,536 | 12.3 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,685 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,681 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,614 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,715 | 10.6 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,519 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,532 | 13.1 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,307 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,365 | 16.6 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,392 | 17.1 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,548 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,115 | 26.6 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,126 | 26.8 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,386 | 19.5 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,099 | 31.1 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,074 | 32.5 |
| 1938 | 43 | #970 | 38.8 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,294 | 25.3 |
| 1936 | 54 | #827 | 52.1 |
| 1935 | 56 | #838 | 53.8 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,067 | 36.8 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,020 | 40.3 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,029 | 40.2 |
| 1931 | 46 | #976 | 44.2 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,087 | 37.4 |
| 1929 | 52 | #935 | 48.3 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,023 | 41.5 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,030 | 40.8 |
| 1926 | 54 | #921 | 48.6 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,030 | 40.3 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,009 | 43.3 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,035 | 42.9 |
| 1922 | 82 | #725 | 75.4 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,241 | 31.8 |
| 1920 | 53 | #952 | 49.8 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,108 | 39.8 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,022 | 43.4 |
| 1917 | 39 | #1,070 | 42.1 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,064 | 41.6 |
| 1915 | 42 | #971 | 49.5 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,170 | 38.2 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,125 | 41.0 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,202 | 37.2 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,226 | 39.8 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,073 | 51.5 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,066 | 50.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,150 | 42.6 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,005 | 51.8 |
| 1886 | 6 | #893 | 54.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gorden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gorden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gorden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gorden, and how old are they?
An estimated 585 Americans named Gorden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 56 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 685 people named Gorden (8 women and girls, 677 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 747 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 158,653 babies since 1880, Gorden is the second most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 209 babies recorded by SSA was a Gorden (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gorden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gorden and names like it
- Compare Gorden and GordonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGorden peaked in 1922.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gorden since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Gorden.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gorden alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.