Gajdoš
org · Latin script
Meaning: bagpiper
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
Gajdoš is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 5.9Kfew records
- CZCzechia1 in 8.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovakia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,536 people, 1995
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gajdos in CZ Czechia, HU Hungary, US United States and 2 more.
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)bagpiper
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gajdoš is found
(measured from records)Gajdoš 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | #420 | 4,536 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.5K | Gajdoš | 63 |
| HU Hungary | #889 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Gajdos | 74 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,320 | 1 in 8.1K | 1.3K | Gajdos | 45 |
| US United States | — | 295 | 1 in 1.1M | 295 | Gajdos | 64 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Gajdos | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 64 | 1 in 131K | 64 | Gajdos | 6 |
4,536 people counted by JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995. 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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jan Gajdošb. 1903CZgymnast (1903–1945)
- Štěpán Gajdošb. 1997CZCzech screenwriter
- Artur Gajdošb. 2004SKSlovak footballer
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gajdoš mean, and where does it come from?
- bagpiper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gajdoš?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Gajdoš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gajdoš. After it come Hungary, Czechia, United States and Serbia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gajdoš most common?
- Gajdoš is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gajdoš?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 4,536 people named Gajdoš in 1995, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Gajdoš compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Gajdoš is the 420th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gajdo%C5%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gajdoš” — the 420th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.