Gordian
Fewer than fifty men in Poland carry this name, so most people here have never met one. It traces to Gordium, the old Phrygian capital, and stays strictly a boys' name.
Gordian Pronunciation
Gordian is pronounced GORD-yahn (/ˈgɔrdjan/).
What Gordian means
Where Gordian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gordian traces back to Gordium, the capital of ancient Phrygia, in what is now central Turkey. The Greek form named a person from that city, someone of Gordion. The short meaning stays close to the ground: from Gordium.
The city gave its name to a knot. Legend placed an impossible knot in Gordium, and an oracle promised Asia to whoever loosed it. Alexander the Great cut it with his sword in 333 BC. The phrase Gordian knot survives for any problem solved by a bold stroke.
Rome carried the name into its records. Three emperors ruled as Gordian in the third century, Gordian I, II, and III. A boy called Gordian on a Polish class register meets a rarer set of letters. The name still points back to one Phrygian city.
When Gordian celebrates name day
Gordian appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Gordian
1 in 496423 men in Poland is named Gordian. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5855 among male names.
Gordian's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Gordian as a middle name
Gordian is a first name for 43 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3105th, between Germain (10) and Grégoire (10).
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#3103 Gavriel10
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#3104 Germain10
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#3105 Gordian10
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#3106 Grégoire10
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#3107 Hun10