Given name & surname · also Irish, Celtic

Gildas

“a woman in the service of the Lord”·“one who serves God”·“the golden one”

Gildas is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “a woman in the service of the Lord”, “one who serves God”, and “the golden one”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Interpretations include “a woman in the service of the Lord”, “one who serves God”, and “the golden one”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.

Where it comes from

This spelling has been associated with Celtic, Irish, and English naming traditions.

Gildas’s family of names

Gildas has a related form in Gilda. Gildas has a related form in Gilde. Gildas has a related form in Gildea.

Walk Gildas’s family in the name graph

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Nicknames & forms 10

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

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Across languages 4

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

People named Gildas

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Sibling ideas

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

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