Gaida
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Respelling of French Gaide, from Gaido, a personal name of Germanic origin, possibly related to gar, ger ‘lance’, ‘spear’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəɪdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaida is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 739K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 50K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Respelling of French Gaide, from Gaido, a personal name of Germanic origin, possibly related to gar, ger ‘lance’, ‘spear’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaida 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Gaida | 111 |
| PL Poland | 684 | 1 in 56K | 381 | Gaida | 2 |
| US United States | 450 | 1 in 739K | 462 | Gaida | 139 |
| IN India | 445 | 1 in 3M | 445 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 388 | 1 in 546K | 388 | — | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Gaida | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Gaida | 32 |
| BE Belgium | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Gaida | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gaida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name, Gaida, based on the verb gaidit ‘to wait’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, An ancient Thracian bagpipe, variations of which are still played in the Balkans.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, , N. (Sd XVI), < subst., < tc. gaida cimpoiu" (DLR) ; gaidar cimpoier".
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
nickname from gaidys ‘rooster’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latvian, Girl Guide
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)
- Giacinto Gaidab. 1874author (1874-?)
- Primo Gaidab. 1899CHSwiss cyclist
- Natalya Gaydab. 1939BYnot in their usual nameSoviet actor
- Michael Gaidab. 1947DEGerman radioplay author
- Klaus G. Gaidab. 1950DEGerman painter
- Alfred Gaidab. 1951DEcyclist
- Tony Rose Gaidab. 1958PHFilipino actress
- Bernard Gaidab. 1958PLPolish politician and entrepreneur
- Rayk Gaidab. 1964DEEast German actor
- Davida GaidaUSUS author
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 462 | #49,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 450 | #47,186 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 445 | #10,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 426 | #46,944 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 388 | #21,285 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 381 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 381 | #8,715 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 303 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 303 | #10,758 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 153 | #4,021 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gaida mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of French Gaide, from Gaido, a personal name of Germanic origin, possibly related to gar, ger ‘lance’, ‘spear’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gaida?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəɪdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gaida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Gaida in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaida.
- How common is the name Gaida?
- In Poland, the national register counted 684 people named Gaida in 2026, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaidaThe 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, “Gaida”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.