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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Lithuanian : nickname from gaidys ‘rooster’.
  • Latvian : from a personal name, Gaida, based on the verb gaidīt ‘to wait’.
  • Polish and Lithuanian : variant spelling of Gajda.
  • Respelling of French Gaide, from Gaido, a personal name of Germanic origin, possibly related to gār, gēr ‘lance’, ‘spear’.

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