Gaida Family History
- Gaida Name Meaning
- Lithuanian: nickname from gaidys ‘rooster’. Latvian: from a personal name, Gaida, based on the verb gaidit ‘to wait’. Polish and Lithuanian: variant spelling of Gajda. Respelling of French Gaide, from Gaido, a personal name of Germanic origin, possibly related to gar, ger ‘lance’, ‘spear’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,002 Historical Documents with Gaida on Ancestry
- 12,611 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,789 Census and Voter Lists
- 969 Military Records
- 923 Immigration Records
- 1,710 Member Trees
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Number of Gaida families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gaida census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Gaida census records
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