Gordana
Just 27 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century: most Poles have never met a Gordana. A Slavic name meaning "proud".
Gordana Pronunciation
Gordana is pronounced gor-DAH-nah (/gɔrˈdana/).
What Gordana means
Where Gordana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gordana comes from a Slavic root, gord, meaning proud. The old sense sits close to dignity, the approving kind of pride rather than the boastful kind. In English the short meaning stays plain: proud. In Polish, dumna.
The same root surfaces in Polish itself. The word "hardy", meaning proud or defiant, grows from it, so a Polish reader meets the name half knowing it already. Gordana spread across the South Slavic lands, where the root stays audible to anyone who listens.
Pride here means standing straight. It points to bearing, to a person who does not stoop. Read from a class register, Gordana announces its meaning before anyone explains it.
The name asks little and gives its sense freely: proud, dumna, gord.
How many people are named Gordana
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Gordana. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8057 among female names.
Gordana as a middle name
Gordana is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5931st, between Gonca (2) and Gordiana (2).
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#5929 Gomes2
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#5930 Gonca2
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#5931 Gordana2
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#5932 Gordiana2
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#5933 Gotfryda2