# Gadsby (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gadsby/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old Norse.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 652 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,668 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 473,536 people |
| Change since 2000 | +14% (572 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Gaddesby, in Leicestershire, from Old Norse gaddr (“spur of land”) + býr (“settlement”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gadsby in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gadsby in Australia.

## People named Gadsby

- Hannah Gadsby, Australian comedian

## Similar surnames

Goodspeed.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.