Gidley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Gidleigh in Devon, so named from an Old English personal name Gydda + leah ‘woodland clearing’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɪdɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gidley is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name for someone from Gidleigh in Devon, so named from an Old English personal name Gydda + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lewis Gidleyb. 1821GBTranslator into Latin
- Ardyce Bohlkeb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1943-2013)
- Jennifer Gidleyb. 1950AUAustralian psychologist
- Sandra Gidleyb. 1957GBBritish politician (born 1957)
- Mary Lou Gidleyb. 1957USbadminton player
- Pamela Gidleyb. 1965USAmerican actress and model (1965-2018)
- Memo Gidleyb. 1970MXMexican-american racing driver
- Hogan Gidleyb. 1976USAmerican political aide
- Kurt Gidleyb. 1982AUAustralian rugby league footballer
- Michael GidleyGBresearcher
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,581 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #259,634 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #261,672 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #161,953 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gidley mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Gidleigh in Devon, so named from an Old English personal name Gydda + leah ‘woodland clearing’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gidley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɪdɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gidley have the most bearers?
- Gidley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gidleyThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gidley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.