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Gorden

At the 2020 census, 2,876 Americans bore the surname Gorden — 10,621st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 104,000.

By the numbers

People
2,876
Rank
10,621st
How common
1 in 104,000
Per 100,000
0.96

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gorden described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Surnames like Gorden

Also a first name

Gorden has been given to 2,049 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.