Gädda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pike, the freshwater fish Esox lucius
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/jɛd̪a/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Gädda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 16K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 66K
- SESweden1 in 425K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
670 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pike, the freshwater fish Esox lucius
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gädda 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.
670 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hubert Gäddab. 1896FIFinnish high jumper
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 357 | #4,637 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 139 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,530 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Gädda mean, and where does it come from?
- pike, the freshwater fish Esox lucius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gädda?
- In Swedish /jɛd̪a/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gädda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 670 people named Gädda, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gädda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gädda is densest in Finland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gädda?
- In India, the national register counted 670 people named Gädda, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gädda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A4ddaThe 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, “Gädda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.