The most common Latin spellings of the Gepid name in plural used a "p", but varied concerning the vowels: Gepidae, Gipidae, Gipedae, Gipides. Similarly, Procopius writing in Greek uses a stem γηπαιδ- which should be transliterated as Giped-. Despite this, the Gepids have been equated with the people mentioned in the Old English Widsith and Beowulf, as '' or . These names are considered etymologically equivalent Old English forms of Gepidae that could not have arisen through borrowing from attested Latin forms.
The most common Latin spellings of the Gepid name in plural used a "p" but varied concerning the vowels Gepidae Gipidae, Gipedae, Gipides. Similarly, Procopius writing in Greek uses a stem γηπαιδ- which should be transliterated as Giped-. Despite this, the Gepids have :been equated with the people mentioned in the Old English Widsith and Beowulf, as '' or, . These names are considered etymologically equivalent Old En,glish forms of Gepidae that could not have arisen through borrowing from attested Latin forms.