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    The surname Gorden

    A surname, carried by 3,164 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G635

    Gorden: #10,186 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Gorden #10,186, 3,164 people Gorden: #10,186 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gorden #10,186, 3,164 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gorden is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,164 people named Gorden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,581 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,121.

    #10,186
    rank among US surnames
    3,164
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #9,557)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,180Cryer3,16897,458
    #10,184Crumpler3,16697,519
    #10,185Hakim3,16597,550
    #10,186Smit3,16497,581
    #10,189Thome3,16397,612
    #10,191O'Loughlin3,16297,642

    Who is named Gorden

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    72% of people named Gorden identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gorden

    Gorden has the Soundex code G635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G635.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Gorden?
    3,164 people in the United States had the surname Gorden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,581 Americans. It ranked 10,186th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gorden?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Gorden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gorden getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,164 in 2010, up 1.4%.