Gorden
Gorden is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 725th, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192282 births
- Best rank
- #725in 1922
- Since 1886
- 2,049people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,049 boys have been named Gorden in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 82 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 82 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gorden | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 282 | |
| 1920s | 509 | |
| 1930s | 423 | |
| 1940s | 284 | |
| 1950s | 218 | |
| 1960s | 151 | |
| 1970s | 85 | |
| 1980s | 32 | |
| 1990s | 20 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 10 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Gorden was the 725th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Gorden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hulonpeak 1920
- Winfordpeak 1928
- Thurmonpeak 1930
- Eldonpeak 1926
- Norbertpeak 1924
- Larencepeak 1927
- Verylpeak 1924
- Wallispeak 1940
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.