Gordon
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry Gordon, so most Poles will never meet one, and the last few years brought no newborns at all. The name is Germanic, from roots meaning "spacious fort".
Gordon Pronunciation
Gordon is pronounced GOR-don (/ˈgɔrdɔn/).
What Gordon means
Where Gordon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gordon comes to English from a Germanic root. It began as a family name, carried by a Scottish clan before it was given to sons. The short meaning is "spacious fort", the kind of stronghold that once needed room for people and cattle behind its walls.
The name points to high ground. In Polish the sense lands as "wielkie wzgórze", a great hill, the sort of rise where a fort made sense. There are no common diminutives here. Gordon stays Gordon on a form.
The best known bearer is the poet Lord Byron, whose full name was George Gordon Byron. He signed himself Byron, yet Gordon came from his mother's Scottish line. A boy named Gordon today shares that middle stretch of a Romantic poet's name, and the plain meaning under it, spacious fort.
How many people are named Gordon
1 in 222356 men in Poland is named Gordon. 96 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3538 among male names.
Gordon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Gordon as a middle name
Gordon is a first name for 96 men in Poland and a middle name for another 121, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 637th, between Efe (121) and Alois (119).
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#635 Yosef122
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#636 Efe121
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#637 Gordon121
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#638 Alois119
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#639 Ładysław119