This name comes from the Latin "gaudia > gaudĭum", which means “joy, contentment, enjoyment, expressions of joy, pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment, especially of the senses, joy, love, delight, ornament, embellishment”. This name has already been used in the Middle Ages, maybe to baptize a child in the long desired.
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