Given name & surname
Gordan
“from the great hill; a hero”
Gordan is a variant of Gordon. One interpretation is “from the great hill; a hero.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gordan is a variant of Gordon. One interpretation is “from the great hill; a hero.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Gordan is a variant of Gordon. An origin associated with Gordon is Scottish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gordan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,025
- 1,025 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,049 as a first name in 2020; 1,715 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gordan’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Gordan has a feminine form in Gordana. Gordan has a related form in Gordon.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gordan
- Gordan GiričekCroatian basketball player (born 1977)
- Gordan Grlić-RadmanCroatian politician who has been the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since July 2019born 1958
- Gordan JandrokovićCroatian diplomat and politicianborn 1967
- Gordan VidovićBelgian footballerborn 1968
- Gordan BunozaBosnian footballerborn 1988
- Gordan KožuljCroatian swimmerborn 1976
- Gordan IrovićSerbian footballer (1934-1995)
- Gordan PetrićSerbian footballer (born 1969)
- Gordan MarasCroatian politicianborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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