Gid as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Gid

What is the meaning of the name Gid ?

The baby name Gid is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /ɡɪd/ (GID).

Gid is Hebrew in Origin.

Gid is a compact English given name most often used as a short form of Gideon, from Hebrew Gid‘on (גִּדְעוֹן), “hewer,” “feller,” or “one who cuts down,” evoking a warrior or woodcutter. The source is the biblical judge who delivered Israel in the Book of Judges. The nickname appears in parish and census records from the 17th century onward, gaining particular traction in the 19th–early 20th‑century United States, where clipped, frontier-friendly forms were common; it occasionally appears as an independent given name on birth records.

Related forms include Gideon (English), Gidon (Modern Hebrew), Gédéon (French), Gedeón (Spanish), Gedeão (Portuguese), and Gedeon (various Slavic languages). Pet forms include Gidi in Hebrew and the now-rare English Giddy. Latter-day Saint tradition also recognizes Gid as the name of a Nephite military figure in the Book of Mormon, a reference that has helped sustain its modest standalone use.

⚙ Gid is far from common. We have only 121 recorded uses of it on record, from 33 countries.