Gordana

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Gordana är ett sydslaviskt namn, avlett från det fornsydslaviska ordet gord ’stolt, värde full’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡord̪ana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gordana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 195(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 236
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 661

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gordana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈36,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
186 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GordanaLatin(measured from records)
ГорданаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Гордана in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Gordana är ett sydslaviskt namn, avlett från det fornsydslaviska ordet gord ’stolt, värde full’. En manlig form är Gordan.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gordana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gordana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#39≈36,000 est.≈1 in 195listedGordana82
HR Croatia#4917,8791 in 23618KGordana116
MK North Macedonia#356,239as Гордана1 in 3416.2KГордана35
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#48≈5,800 est.≈1 in 661—Gordana26
DE Germany—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 34KlistedGordana92
SI Slovenia#3971,7591 in 1.2K1.8KGordana28

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; the de-munich-vornamen register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gordana is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Gordána

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гордана, Ґордана

  • Hebrew given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Italy

    Also written גורדנה

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gordana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, "Manzana reineta (Darric)" DRA .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

194019601980Gordana Kuić, b. 1942Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, b. 1948Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, b. 1953Gordana Gadžić, b. 1955Gordana Čomić, b. 1958Gordana Matković, b. 1960Gordana Perkučin, b. 1962Gordana Boban, b. 1967Gordana Tržan, b. 1974Gordana Sekulić, b. 1977

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Gordana,Hi Gordana, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Gordana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202118K#42
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202116K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20231.8K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20221.8K#144
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20211.8K#142
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.8K#142
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.8K#274
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.8K#146
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20241.8K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.8K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.8K#141
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.8K#142

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Gordana?
A machine transcription gives /ɡord̪ana/ (IPA) for Croatian.
What does the name Gordana mean?
Recorded meaning: Gordana är ett sydslaviskt namn, avlett från det fornsydslaviska ordet gord ’stolt, värde full’.
Is Gordana a male or female name?
Gordana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Gordana?
In the etymology graph, Dana is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Gordana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Gordana in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gordana.
How common is the name Gordana?
In Croatia, the national register counted 17,879 people named Gordana in 2021, about 1 in 236 residents.
How common is Gordana compared with other names?
In Serbia, Gordana is the 39th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gordana” — the 39th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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