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Gediz

Boys' name

Form of Κᾰ́δοι

Gediz has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2021. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Gediz, 2021

1 in 147,000

Gediz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gediz: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Κᾰ́δοι

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gediz means

Gediz is a form of Κᾰ́δοι.

Origin, language, and formation

Gediz is used in Turkish.

Gediz comes through Ottoman Turkish كدیز and Ancient Greek Κᾰ́δους.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Κᾰ́δοι.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Gediz is pronounced /ɟe.diz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Gediz between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,408 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gediz?

Gediz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 147,000
23 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 76,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
102,164 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gediz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 102,164 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gediz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gedizs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gediz was born before 2021 — so the typical Gediz is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Gediz rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (23)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,408
2021

Spellings of Gediz

Gediz is not the most common spelling — Edin is, with 51.0% against Gediz's 0.91%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gediz is used

Across 1910–2025, Gediz was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gediz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gediz by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,408
2021
Peak year
2021
23 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gediz

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GedeonGedaliaEdizGeddyGeddesGedalyaGedaliah

Sibling names for Gediz

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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