Gedye Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 11
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 20
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 1
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 7
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Gedye Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gedye family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 3
Farmer 2
Clerk 2
Mason 1
Master Weaver 1
Smith 1
Wool Sorter 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gedye

Name Census Frequency
Mary Gedye 28
John Gedye 26
Elizabeth Gedye 17
Jane Gedye 14
Alfred Gedye 13
Francis Gedye 11
William Gedye 11
George Gedye 10
Nicholas Gedye 10
Charles Gedye 9
Samuel Gedye 8
Edwin Gedye 7
Ellen Gedye 7
Thomas Gedye 7
Ann Gedye 6
Frank Gedye 6
Joseph Gedye 6
Julia Gedye 6
Percy Gedye 6
Rachel Gedye 6
James Gedye 5
Margaret Gedye 5
Agnes Gedye 4
Alice Gedye 4
Arthur Gedye 4

Gedye Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Goody 40% 6,207
2 Goodey 33% 4,906
3 Gooday 33% 2,096
4 Gedye 100% 383
5 Goudey 33% 248
6 Goudy 40% 236
7 Gaudy 40% 200

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The surname Gedye is the 4th most popular variant of Goody.

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