Gordon
Gordon is the 163rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 157,985 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,892.
By the numbers
- People
- 157,985
- Rank
- 163rd
- How common
- 1 in 1,892
- Per 100,000
- 52.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Celtic languages
The main etymology, associated with cel names, is from the Scots surname Gordon, from a place name, but the origin is :.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gordon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gordon
- Jeff Gordon (born 1971)American racing driver
- Ruth Gordon (1896–1985)American actress and writer
- Anthony Gordon (born 2001)English association football player
- Charles George Gordon (1833–1885)British army officer and administrator
- Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)American jazz saxophonist
- Craig Gordon (born 1982)Scottish association football player
- Richard F. Gordon (1929–2017)American astronaut
- Kim Gordon (born 1953)American musician and artist, most known as co-founding member of Sonic Youth
People named Gordon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Gordon
Also a first name
Gordon has been given to 155,579 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1952. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.