Why Is Gordon a Jewish Last Name? https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5028251/jewish/Why-Is-Gordon-a-Jewish-Last-Name.htm
>To our English-speaking ears, it seems that Gordon would be Scottish, as it is indeed a common family name—as well as given name—among Scots and Brits.
>Yet Gordon is also a bona-fide Ashkenazi family name (spelled גארדאן or גורדון), particularly widespread among Jews of Lithuanian descent (“Litvaks” in Yiddish). This explains why there are so many Gordons among South African Jews, who migrated primarily from Lithuania.
>So what does it mean? In its Jewish iteration, Gordon implies that its bearers are from Grodno, a once-flourishing center of Jewish life, also known as Hrodno, today in western Belarus.
>To our English-speaking ears, it seems that Gordon would be Scottish, as it is indeed a common family name—as well as given name—among Scots and Brits.
>Yet Gordon is also a bona-fide Ashkenazi family name (spelled גארדאן or גורדון), particularly widespread among Jews of Lithuanian descent (“Litvaks” in Yiddish). This explains why there are so many Gordons among South African Jews, who migrated primarily from Lithuania.
>So what does it mean? In its Jewish iteration, Gordon implies that its bearers are from Grodno, a once-flourishing center of Jewish life, also known as Hrodno, today in western Belarus.