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gad Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Gadd.
  2. Danish: from a medieval nickname Gad meaning ‘sting’, ‘point’, or from the Biblical male personal name Gad.
  3. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic jad ‘serious’, ‘earnest’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The gad name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gad family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gad Families in the US in 1920
Number of gad families
 4-5
 2-3		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 13
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Need Some Help Please staffbymail 1
Gad Geneology Livian 3
Elizabeth Gad abt. 1685 LindaFields369 0
Bicknell/Becknell of Comb Florey Somerset England Sharyl61 0
Thomas GAD(D) and Betty GREENSLADE (Somerset) JanetCridland 0
Gad or Gadd surname website JohnGadd69 0
GAD/GADD/GUDD family, Combe Florey, Somerset, England suekellow 0
Elizabeth Shoesmith crazywitch35 0
STRODER family mjstroder 0
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