Given name & surname · also Gaelic
Geddes
Geddes is a surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Geddes comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Geddie.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Geddes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1917. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,636 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geddes’s family of names
In English usage, Geddes as a surname has a related form in Gaddis. In English usage, Geddes as a surname has a related form in GEDDIS. In Greek usage, Geddes as a surname is a transliteration of Γέδδες.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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