Gayda Family History
Gayda Name Meaning
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Czech Slovak Rusyn (from Slovakia and Poland) and Hungarian Gajda . Compare 2 below. Ukrainian Rusyn and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for bagpipe player from Ukrainian gayda ‘bagpipe’ a cognate of Polish Slovak and Hungarian Gajda . Compare 1 above. Ukrainian Belorussian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname based on a Russian-oriented transliteration of Ukrainian Belorussian and Yiddish hayda ‘onward! march!’ a word of Turkish origin. Ukrainian Belorussian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname based on Ukrainian regional gayda ‘good-for-nothing’ or on a Russian-oriented transliteration of Belorussian hayda ‘revelry’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022