Gordon

Derived from a Proto-Brythonic term meaning “spacious fort”.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔrdn̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔːdn̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən

Gordon

1. A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6443).
2. A Scottish habitational surname from the Celtic languages for someone from Gordon, Berwickshire.
3. An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman for someone from Gourdon, France.
4. A habitational surname from Irish, an anglicization of de Górdún (“of Gordon (Berwickshire)”).
5. A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Mag Mhuirneacháin (“son of Muirneachán”) (traditionally Magournahan).
6. 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!"

7. 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.

8. 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.
9. 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.
10. A river in Tasmania, Australia.
11. A river in Western Australia, Australia; named for British statesman George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.

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

• (given name): Gorden

• Gordon County
• Gordon Hill
• Portgordon
• sine-Gordon equation
• (given name diminutives): Gord, Gordie, Gordy, Gordo

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gordon is the 161^st 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.

Gordon (plural Gordons)

1. A Gordon setter.

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

• Grodno, drongo

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔr.dɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdɔn
• Syllabification: Gor‧don

Gordon m pers

1. a male surname

Gordon f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

From Early Scots Gordoun, from Old English gor-dūn (“mud hill”), from gor + dun.

Gordon

1. Gordon (a village in Scotland)