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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : nickname for a ribald person, from gajdolni ‘to sing in a raucous or drunken way’ (from Slavic gajda ‘bagpipe’). In some cases it may be an occupational name for a player of pipes or bagpipes.
  • Polish and Slovak (Gajdoš) : from a derivative of Gajda.

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