Gazda

See also: gazda and gazdă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish, Czech and Slovak Gazda, all from gazda (“farmer”).

Proper noun

Gazda (plural Gazdas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gazda is the 22978^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1113 individuals. Gazda is most common among White (97.3%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gazda”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25.

Czech

Etymology

From gazda (“farmer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡazda]

Proper noun

Gazda m anim (female equivalent Gazdová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Gazda (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Gazda	Gazdové
genitive	Gazdy	Gazdů
dative	Gazdovi	Gazdům
accusative	Gazdu	Gazdy
vocative	Gazdo	Gazdové
locative	Gazdovi	Gazdech
instrumental	Gazdou	Gazdy

Further reading

• “Gazda”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡazda]

Proper noun

Gazda m pers (female equivalent Gazdová)

1. a male surname

Further reading

• “Gazda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024