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Gordon is a traditional Scottish clan name (see Clan Gordon.) It is now a common forename, in honour of General Charles George Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, and a less common surname. It is thought to be Celtic for "great hill" from the Celtic words "gor" which means "great" and "dun" which means "hill".

Another theory would have it to be of Norman or French origin, Celtic also, from the name of the small town of Gourdon, Lot which is called Gordon in the local Occitan language. In this case, 'gord' means a fortress or readily-fortified place, and the suffix 'on' would mean 'large' as in present-day Spanish, for example. In support of this theory, it is worthy of note that

  1. as elsewhere, ancient place-names in France were frequently derived from the topography, and for Gourdon this description fits to absolute perfection;
  2. it is known that to the south of the town of Gourdon, at a place called Cénevières on the Lot River itself, from around the 9th century A.D. at least, lived a noble family called Gordon (from the name of the town) and it is believed that the first record of a Gordon in Scotland, which dates from just a few years prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 refers to a member of that same French family.

Following French custom, "de" was added to the name as recognition of noble blood, and "Gordon" became "Gourdon" so that the pronunciation would suit the more modern French language as opposed to Occitan. The last member of the then illustrious de Gourdon family died without a male heir in the beginning of the 17th century, so the name in France was thus extinct. The Scottish Gordons, fortunately, continued to flourish.

It is also a fairly common surname of some Eastern European Jews (Hebrew: גורדון‎ Russian: Гордон); its origin in this usage may derive from Grodno.[1] It is also found in Ireland (Irish: Mag Mhuirneacháin).

As a surname

Nobility

As a given name (in surname order)

Fictional characters

  • Commissioner Gordon, commissioner of Gotham City in Batman
  • Barbara Gordon, first Batgirl, now the information broker known as Oracle
  • Dr. Bruce Gordon, the original alter-ego of Eclipso.
  • Meredith Gordon, biological mother of Claire Bennet, and Flint Gordon, Meredith's brother, from Heroes
  • Flash Gordon, lead character of the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name, and the movie, television, and comic books based on the comic strip
  • Gordon, The Talking Leg, character in Rocko's Modern Life
  • Gordon, the first archer to appear in the series Fire Emblem
  • Gordon the Gopher, puppet character from various British children's TV programmes
  • Gordon, the pet devil of Ackman in Akira Toriyama's manga series Go Go Ackman and its video game adaptation
  • Gordon the Big Engine, a fictional anthropomorphic tender locomotive in The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry
  • David "Gordo" Gordon in Lizzie McGuire
  • Gordon Deitrich, character in V for Vendetta (film)
  • Gordon Freeman, main character in the Half Life series
  • Gordon Quid, character from Catscratch
  • Gordon Robinson, from the popular children's educational television program Sesame Street
  • Gordon Shumway (aka Alf Tanner), an alien from Melmac, and the title character of the sitcom ALF (TV series)
  • Gordon Tracy, fictional character from Thunderbirds
  • Gordon Walker, a hunter in the television series Supernatural
  • Lawrence Gordon, fictional character in the first of the Saw franchise
  • Tony Gordon, fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street
  • Gordon, character in Edith Templeton's novel Gordon
  • Gordon Gekko, fictional character in Wall Street played by Michael Dogulas
  • Gordon LaChance, fictional character in 'Stand by Me' played by Wil Wheaton

References

  1. ^ from London Chronicle. "The Jewish Name 'Gordon.'", The New York Times, August 29, 1905. Accessed September 10, 2009.







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