Gordon

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English

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Etymology

The main etymology, associated with Celtic names, is from the Scots surname Gordon, from a place name, but the origin is debated:

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gordon

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from the Celtic languages for someone from Gordon, Berwickshire.
  2. An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman for someone from Gourdon, France.
  3. A habitational surname from Irish, an anglicization of de Górdún (of Gordon (Berwickshire)).
  4. A surname from Irish , an adopted anglicization of Mag Mhuirneacháin (son of Muirneachán) (traditionally Magournahan).
  5. A Jewish habitational surname probably for someone from Grodno, Belarus.
    • 1822 Walter Scott, Poetical Works: Halidon Hill (Baudry's European Library, 1838), page 420:
      Mount, vassals, couch your lances, and cry, "Gordon!
      Gordon for Scotland and Elizabeth!"
  6. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • 1913, Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, →ISBN, page 13:
      Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane". He liked that one. It suggested something.
  7. A place name:
    1. A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6443).
    2. A locale in Australia.
      1. A suburb of Canberra; named for poet Adam Lindsay Gordon.
      2. A suburb of Sydney; probably named for British Army officer James Willoughby Gordon.
      3. A town in Victoria; named for early settler George Gordon.
      4. A river in Tasmania, Australia.
      5. A river in Western Australia, Australia; named for British statesman George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.
    3. A locale in the United States.
      1. A city in Georgia; named for railroad official William Washington Gordon.
      2. A city in Nebraska; named for early settler John Gordon.
      3. A city in Texas.
      4. A town in Alabama.
      5. A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin; named for fur trader Antoine Guerdon.
      6. A town in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
      7. A borough of Pennsylvania; named for judge David F. Gordon.
      8. A village in Ohio; named for an early settler.
      9. An unincorporated community in California.
      10. An unincorporated community in Illinois.
      11. An unincorporated community in Kansas.
      12. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.

Usage notes

The given name was popular in the UK in the first half of the 20th century.

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Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Gordon is the 161st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 161,833 individuals. Gordon is most common among White (64.25%) and Black (29.15%) individuals.

Noun

Gordon (plural Gordons)

  1. A Gordon setter.

References

  • Reaney & Wilson: A Dictionary of English Surnames, OUP 1997
  • Gordon’ in Behind the Name, Mike Campbell, 1996.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gordon m anim (female equivalent Gordonová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

Further reading

  • Gordon”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Polish

Etymology

From the personal name Gordian (from Latin Gordianus). Alternatively, from an East Slavic word meaning "proud", e.g. Ukrainian гордий (hordyj), Belarusian горды (hórdy), Russian гордый (gordyj).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gordon m pers

  1. a male surname
  2. Gordon (a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

Declension

Proper noun

Gordon f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Scots

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Etymology was: From Early Scots Gordoun, from Old English gor-dūn (mud hill), from gor + dun (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Proper noun

Gordon

  1. Gordon (a village in Scotland)
  2. Gordon (a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)