Giddings
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Gidding, a Cambridgeshire place-name meaning 'settlement of Gydda's people'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɪdɪŋz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giddings is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 15K
- GDGrenada1 in 38K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,267 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Gidding, a Cambridgeshire place-name meaning 'settlement of Gydda's people'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giddings 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.
5,267 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Giddings 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.
In English, from Great, Little, or Steeple Gidding (Hu), Giddinge (K), or Gedding (Sf); first attested Richard de Geddinges 1205 P (Hu)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from a group of villages near Huntingdon, called Great, Little, and Steeple Gidding, named from Old English Gyddingas ‘people of Gydda’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, lages near Huntingdon, called Great, Little, and Steeple
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Joshua Reed Giddingsb. 1795USAmerican politician (1795–1864)
- Marsh Giddingsb. 1816USAmerican politician (1816-1875)
- Dewitt Clinton Giddingsb. 1827USUnited States Congressman from Texas (1827-1903)
- Franklin H. Giddingsb. 1855USAmerican economist (1855–1931)
- Helen Giddingsb. 1945USAmerican politician
- Paula Giddingsb. 1947USAmerican lawyer
- Andrew Giddingsb. 1963GBBritish musician
- Lara Giddingsb. 1972AUAustralian politician; 44th Premier of Tasmania
- Stuart Giddingsb. 1986GBfootballer (born 1986)
- Steven GiddingsUSAmerican physicist and university teacher
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,447 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.7K | #6,818 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 394 | #280 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #53,621 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #222 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #220 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Giddings mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Gidding, a Cambridgeshire place-name meaning 'settlement of Gydda's people' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Giddings?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɪdɪŋz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Giddings have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Giddings, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giddings.
- Where is Giddings most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giddings is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Giddings?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,267 people named Giddings in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giddingsThe 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, “Giddings”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.