Gordon

• Gorden

As a Scottish surname and clan name, from a place in Berwickshire, of Celtic origin meaning "spacious fort" (cf. dùn). Also an English surname derived from the place name Gourdon in France.

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)dən

Gordon

1. A surname​.
   • 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!"

2. Any of several places, outside Scotland named for persons with the surname.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in the UK in the first half of the 20th century.
   • 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean (BiblioBazaar, LLC, 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.

• Gordon County

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/

Gordon m pers or f

1. A masculine surname​.
2. A feminine surname​.

Masculine surname:

The feminine surname is indeclinable.

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

Gordon

1. Gordon (Scottish Borders)