Last name origin & meaning: Hungarian and Jewish (from Hungary): status name from vajda
‘leader’, ‘governor’, a word of Slavic origin. The Hungarian name is especially common in Transylvania, where, before
the creation of the independent Hungarian principality, the term had
denoted the highest ranking administrative and military leader. In
medieval times various Romanian village leaders, as well as the
leaders of gypsy caravans, were also called vajda. As a Jewish
name it was ornamental or a name taken by a rabbi.
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