# Everyone named Gord is from Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784 "2021-03-12T15:47:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/21 "2021-03-12T23:55:18Z")
My Uncle Gordie spent the first part of his career career laying in the nose of a Lancaster bomber counting ice in Canada’s Arctic and the last part of his career protecting Canada’s Machias Seal Island sovereignty. How could his parents have named him anything other than Gordie? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/22 "2021-03-13T00:55:51Z")
All the Gord’s I know personally are Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/23 "2021-03-13T01:07:52Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > My Uncle Gordie spent the first part of his career career laying in the nose of a Lancaster bomber counting ice in Canada’s Arctic and the last part of his career protecting Canada’s Machias Seal Island sovereignty. How could his parents have named him anything other than Gordie? And then there’s Gord Pinset. Any time you talk about your uncle, I envisage him as looking like Pinset, especially on Red Green. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/24 "2021-03-13T01:13:23Z")
Gordo Cooper tried to leave the USA but ended up returning. He got as far as the Louisiana - Arkansas border. He tried again with a buddy, but still didn’t make it to Canada. One hell of a couple of incredible efforts through, so all y’all folks might not have may Gords, but you sure had a great one. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/25 "2021-03-13T01:29:32Z")
That’s the image I was trying to post. How did you do that? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/26 "2021-03-13T01:46:28Z")
I literally just right clicked on it on Google, chose copy image, and then pasted it. I’m not smart, I just do things. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/27 "2021-03-13T01:56:37Z")
Ok, just to be anecdotal: My step-father (who, incidentally, just died this past week), an 87-year-old American, was named Gordon, and went by “Gord” to a few older friends. Most of us called him “Gordon,” but the pastor doing his service did slip in “Gord” a few times when talking about him, which reminded me then that he did also go by that. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/28 "2021-03-13T02:41:13Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I literally just right clicked on it on Google, chose copy image, and then pasted it. I’m not smart, I just do things.- I think that’s what we’re not supposed to do here. We have to _link_ to a picture, not post the actual picture (as the SDMB/Discourse isn’t supposed to be hosting our punctures). I may not be understanding it correctly, though. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/29 "2021-03-13T02:45:55Z")
When I pasted it it came up as a link to me. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/30 "2021-03-13T02:51:31Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > When I pasted it it came up as a link to me.- Hmm - the link now has “discourse” in the name. I think it’s being hosted by discourse. When I click on the pic, it looks like it’s hosted here now. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/31 "2021-03-13T10:52:17Z")
Here in the US we pronounce it differently. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bigbangtheory/images/f/fc/Gorn23.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bigbangtheory/images/f/fc/Gorn23.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/32 "2021-03-13T14:36:36Z")
I’ve known a few Gordons, none went by Gord. A few insignificant data points from me. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/33 "2021-03-13T14:59:24Z")
All Gordons are Gords, even if they won’t admit it. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/34 "2021-03-13T15:37:22Z")
Another name that’s popular in Canada and not that popular outside it is Lorne: > **[Lorne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Lorne is a given name and place name especially popular in Canada, due to the Marquess of Lorne, who was Governor General of Canada (1878–1883). Lorne may refer to: ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/35 "2021-03-13T16:21:51Z")
Previous thread on Canadian Lornes: > [@Canadians - is Lorne still commonly given as a boy's name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-is-lorne-still-commonly-given-as-a-boys-name/377063): > > I read in an article the other day that \*\*Lorne \*\* is a popular boy’s name in Canada, deriving from the title of a 19th century Governor-General, the Marquess of Lorne (afterwards the Duke of Argyll). This popularity is supposedly unique to Canada. The article mentioned the actor Lorne Green as an example. One example didn’t seem all that convincing to me. Is Lorne still a popular boy’s name in Canada? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/36 "2021-03-13T18:04:58Z")
The people who are most known in the U.S. by the names Lorne are Lorne Michaels and Lorne Greene, both of whom were actually born in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/37 "2021-03-13T20:58:18Z")
Gordie Howe, eh? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/38 "2021-03-13T22:15:37Z")
There’s a guy who had a website named Acts of Gord, in which he tells tales of owning a video game store. I think he was Canadian, too. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/39 "2021-03-13T22:19:03Z")
Correct, from Penticton, BC: > **[Acts of Gord](https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Acts_of_Gord)** > > Gord is a local deity. Very local. He's a regular guy who owns a game store, and that makes him God over that store and its customers. Well, technically no one ever claim that Gord would be a god; it's just that the whole story of how he's running... ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784/40 "2021-03-13T22:47:04Z")
My brother was a Gordon, a Gordy and a Gord. He prefers Gordon now, but us sibs still call him Gordy or Gord. No Canadian connections (other than a dna test finding distant relatives in PEI and Nova Scotia), but he played garage hockey and introduced the rest of the family to the NHL. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-named-gord-is-from-canada/937784.md?page=3)