The Gaddis surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,142 people carried this name — #3,877 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 32,300 people counted. That is up 2% from 8,926 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Gaddis surname
A surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Geddes.
Variant of Geddes.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Gaddis» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
25 families named Gaddis, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 119 people lived in those households, 4.8 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 6 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 241 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Gaddis in American newspapers,
1892.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 22,586 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Gaddis in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1950s.
88 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Gaddis. The most, 27, date from the 1940s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 2.3 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Gaddis.
Who carried it
People named Gaddis,
with a public archive behind them.
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William Gaddis 1922–1998 · writer -
Thomas Gaddis 1742–1834
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Harriett Gaddis Spann 1885–1969
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Harriett Gaddis Spann 1888–1969
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Mary Lowe Gaddis 1917–2013
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Gaddis,
in the records of 3 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States506 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 270
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 98
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 82
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 19
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 16
- Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 11
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record John H. GaddisBorn 1922 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Bliss El Paso; sales clerk from El Paso County. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1969, buried at Houston National Cemetery, Texas.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Ralph Arnold GaddisBorn 1948; from Pioneer, Louisiana. U.S. Army, unit supply specialist; died in an accident 1970 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Mary GaddisArrived at New York in 1885 aboard the Britannic from Liverpool, aged 20; servant. From England.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 506 records for Gaddis in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Australia8 records
- Queensland State Archives indexes 5
- Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 2
- NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 1
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Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829 Transportation record Margaret GaddisTransported to New South Wales aboard the Mariner, arriving 1825; certificate of freedom 1840.
Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Hannah GaddisArrived in Victoria in 1855 as an assisted immigrant aboard the Maria Hay, aged 25.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: civil register, 1880 Civil record Alice GaddisHeld a land order in Queensland in 1866.
Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 8 records for Gaddis in Australia.
Counts: Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
Canada2 records
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Edna May GaddisBuried in 1980 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
Showing 1 of 2 records for Gaddis in Canada.
Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).
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