Given name & surname · also Turkish
Gediz
Gediz is a unisex given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Gediz comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish كدیز (gediz), from Ancient Greek Κᾰ́δους.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gediz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 23 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 23 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 23 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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