Gaddi

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gaddi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: My fortune, my happiness, or a hypocoristic (shortened) form of Gaddiel ('God is my fortune').

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 152K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 130K
  • INIndia1 in 490K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

2,704 people

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

My fortune, my happiness, or a hypocoristic (shortened) form of Gaddiel ('God is my fortune').

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gaddi 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 Gaddi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India2,7041 in 490K2.7KGaddi6
AR Argentina3001 in 152K300Gaddi36
US United States2881 in 1.2M408Gaddi50
BR Brazil321 in 6.6M32Gaddi19
UY Uruguay261 in 130K26Gaddi7
CH Switzerland161 in 525K16—2

2,704 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).

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

Gaddi is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Gàddi, Ǧaddī, Gaddî

48 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)

Gaddi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • As one of the ten spies who brought a bad report, he represents the failure of the generation of the Exodus to trust in God's power to secure the Promised Land.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In aa, genitive of gád

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

12001400160018002000Gaddo Gaddi, b. 1240Taddeo Gaddi, b. 1300Giovanni Gaddi, b. 1333Agnolo Gaddi, b. 1350Niccolò Gaddi, b. 1499Clemente Gaddi, b. 1901Carlo Gaddi, b. 1940Carlo Gaddi, b. 1962

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)

Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Gaddi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3.1K#216
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.7K#2,490
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020408#54,521
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—300—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010288#68,345
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000247#73,154
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—32#142,633
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—26—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202416#43,070
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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

What does the name Gaddi mean, and where does it come from?
My fortune, my happiness, or a hypocoristic (shortened) form of Gaddiel ('God is my fortune'). Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
In which country does Gaddi have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Gaddi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaddi.
Where is Gaddi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaddi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 130 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gaddi?
In India, the national register counted 2,704 people named Gaddi, about 1 in 490 thousand residents.

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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, “Gaddi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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