Last name origins & meanings:
- Lithuanian: nickname from gaidys ‘rooster’.
- Latvian: from a personal name, Gaida, based on the verb
gaidīt ‘to wait’.
- Polish and Lithuanian: variant
spelling of Gajda.
- Respelling of French Gaide,
from Gaido, a personal name of Germanic origin, possibly
related to gār, gēr ‘lance’, ‘spear’.
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