Gajdos

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nickname for a ribald person, from gajdolni ‘to sing in a raucous or drunken way’ (from Slavic gajda ‘bagpipe’)

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

/ɡəjdəʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gajdos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 8.1K
  • HUHungary≈1 in 17K

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.

Slovakia (measured from records)

4,536 people, 1995

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gajdoš in SK Slovakia.

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)

nickname for a ribald person, from gajdolni ‘to sing in a raucous or drunken way’ (from Slavic gajda ‘bagpipe’). In some cases it may be an occupational name for a player of pipes or bagpipes.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gajdos 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 Gajdos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SK Slovakia#4204,5361 in 1.2K4.5KGajdoš63
CZ Czechia—1,3201 in 8.1K1.3KGajdos45
HU Hungary#889≈560 est.≈1 in 17K—Gajdos74
US United States—2951 in 1.1M295Gajdos64
FR France—≈110 est.≈1 in 602K11—1
RS Serbia—≈92 est.≈1 in 76K—Gajdos9
CH Switzerland—641 in 131K64Gajdos6

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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Gajdos is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Gajdoš

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Gajdoš

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gajdoš

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia

    Also written Gajdoš

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gajdoš

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Gajdoš

23 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)

Gajdos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, Polish and Slovak (Gajdos); from a derivative of Gajda.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

190019502000János Gajdos, b. 1912Ferenc Gajdos, b. 1937Márta Gajdos, b. 1950László Gajdos, b. 1962József Gajdos, b. 1962Róbert Gajdos, b. 1970István Gajdos, b. 1971Csaba Gajdos, b. 1974Zsolt Gajdos, b. 1993Dorottya Gajdos, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Gajdos,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gajdos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010295#66,931
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000289#64,385
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020280#74,428
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202464#15,489
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19217—

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name Gajdos come from?
nickname for a ribald person, from gajdolni ‘to sing in a raucous or drunken way’ (from Slavic gajda ‘bagpipe’). In some cases it may be an occupational name for a player of pipes or bagpipes. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gajdos?
A machine transcription gives /ɡəjdəʊz/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Gajdos mean?
Recorded meaning: nickname for a ribald person, from gajdolni ‘to sing in a raucous or drunken way’ (from Slavic gajda ‘bagpipe’).
In which country does Gajdos have the most bearers?
In Slovakia, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Gajdos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gajdoš.
Where is Gajdos most common?
Gajdos is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gajdos?
In Slovakia, the national register counted 4,536 people named Gajdos in 1995, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Gajdos compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Gajdos is the 420th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gajdos” — the 420th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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