Given name & surname · also Serbian
Gordana
“a proud woman”·“one who is heroic”
Gordana is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “a proud woman” and “one who is heroic”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “a proud woman” and “one who is heroic”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Serbian and Scottish naming traditions.
How it developed
In Slovenian usage, Gordana is a feminine form of Gordan.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gordana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 0 boys · 40 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 7 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 girls is 5 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,174 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gordana’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Gordana is a feminine form of Gordan. Gordana has a related form in Gordanah. Gordana has a related form in Gordanea.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gordana has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Serbian roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Gordaneahvariant
- Gordaniyahvariant
- Gordaniahvariant
- Gordannahvariant
- Gordaneavariant
- Gordaniyavariant
- Gordaniavariant
- Gordannavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gordana
- Gordana Siljanovska-DavkovaPresident of North Macedonia (2024-)born 1953
- Gordana KuićSerbian writer (1942–2023)
- Gordana Jankuloskaformer Macedonian Interior Ministerborn 1975
- Gordana Perkučintable tennis playerborn 1962
- Goga SekulićSerbian turbo-folk singerborn 1977
- Gordana Vunjak-NovakovicSerbian American biomedical engineerborn 1948
- Goca TržanSerbian singerborn 1974
- Gordana ČomićSerbian politician, Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the Government of the Republic of Serbiaborn 1958
- Gordana BobanBosnian actressborn 1967
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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