Given name

Gauti

“a great man”

Gauti is a variant of Gaute. One interpretation is “a great man.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Gauti is a variant of Gaute. One interpretation is “a great man.”

Explained through its name family

Where it comes from

Gauti comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old Norse Gauti.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gauti’s family of names

In Icelandic usage, Gauti shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Nynorsk form Gaute. Gauti has a related form in Gaute.

Walk Gauti’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Gauti, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old Frisian

Autti

“ravine, gorge”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Gautstav

“Geat” · “staff”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Gadsby

“spur of land”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Gísli

“hostage”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Geiri

“spear”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Gunby

“settlement”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Knuuti

Knuuti is a surname from Old Norse. It is used in Finnish.

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Old Norse

Hjalti

“from Hjaltland”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Gauti’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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