Gid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A disease caused by coenurosis of the brain, most commonly found in sheep and canids
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡˈɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gid is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A disease caused by coenurosis of the brain, most commonly found in sheep and canids.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gid counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 32 | — |
| US United States | — | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | — | 1 | — |
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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Gid 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.
In German, from Old English gidd 'speech, song'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Turkish, initialism of Genişletilebilir İşaretleme Dili (XML abbreviated in Turkish.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Gidar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, guide (someone who guides)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of ġiedd
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)
- Gan Jib. 101CNnot in their usual nameChinese Taoist priest (died 200)
- Jin Youzib. 1366CNnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 34486
- Mao Jib. 1426CNnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 67337
- Zhang Jib. 1451not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 34592
- Kichi Saitōb. 1841JPnot in their usual namelady in late 1800s in Japan
- Gid Gardnerb. 1859USMajor League Baseball player (1859–1914)
- Xu Jinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 353936
- Zhang Jinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 227579
- Zhao Jinot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB=50040
- Zhang Jinot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 119964
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 52 | #4,674 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 32 | #58,917 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #1,607 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #24,982 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #31,598 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #22,315 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #259,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #261,668 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #182,488 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Gid mean, and where does it come from?
- A disease caused by coenurosis of the brain, most commonly found in sheep and canids. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gid?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡˈɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Gid a male or female name?
- Gid is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gid have the most bearers?
- Gid is most frequently recorded in India.
What do you want to know about Gid?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gidThe 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, “Gid”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.