What is the name meaning of GILLE. Phrases containing GILLE
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Greek
Shield bearer.
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Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
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Irish
Serves Christ.
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English
English : variant of Gillett 1.
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English
English : variant of Guiler.German : variant of Gille 2.German : habitational name for someone from Gill near Neuss, in the Rhineland.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Hiller, a variant of Hillel. The initial G is due to Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h to g in borrowed words.
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English
Scottish Anglicized form of Gaelic Gilleasbaig, GILLESPIE means "bishop's servant."Â
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Teutonic
Resolute fighter.
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English
English : from a short form of the personal names Giles, Julian, or William. In theory the name would have a soft initial when derived from the first two of these, and a hard one when from William or from the other possibilities discussed in 2–4 below. However, there has been much confusion over the centuries.Northern English : topographic name for someone who lived by a ravine or deep glen, Middle English gil(l), Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.Scottish and Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille (Scottish), Mac Giolla (Irish), patronymics from an occupational name for a servant or a short form of the various personal names formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint. See McGill. The Old Norse personal name Gilli is probably of this origin, and may lie behind some examples of the name in northern England.Scottish and Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac An Ghoill (see Gall 1).Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads in western Norway named Gil, from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.Dutch : cognate of Giles.Jewish (Israeli) : ornamental name from Hebrew gil ‘joy’.German : from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegidius (see Gilger).Indian (Panjab) : Sikh name, probably from Panjabi gil ‘moisture’, also meaning ‘prosperity’. There is a Jat tribe that bears this name; the Ramgarhia Sikhs also have a clan called Gill.
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English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from any of the various places named Hatton, from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ (see Heath) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Examples of the place name are found in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, West London, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.French : from the Old French oblique case of the Germanic personal name Hado, Hatto, a short form of various compound names beginning with hadu ‘strife’.Irish (Ulster) and Scottish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chatáin (Irish), Mac Gille Chatain (Scottish) (see McHatton).Scottish : habitational name, perhaps in part of English origin (see 1), but perhaps also from a Scottish place name.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from the personal name Gillem, a variant of Guillaume, French form of William.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a man with red hair, from Yiddish gel ‘red-headed’, Middle High German gel ‘yellow’, German gelb (see Geller).German : unexplained.English : from a short form of the personal name Julian.Variant of French Gille.
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Scottish
Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhunna (see McMunn).English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French moun ‘monk’ (see Monk).
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Spanish
Resolute protector.
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English
English : from a pet form of the personal names Giles, Julian, or William (see Gill 1).English : topographic name for someone living at the top of a glen or ravine, from northern Middle English gil(l) ‘glen’ + heved ‘head’.
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English
English : from a feminine form of Gillett 1.French : variant spelling of Gillet.
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English
English : from a personal name, Old French Guillemin, Anglo-Norman French Williman, pet forms of Guillaume, Willelm (see William).German (Gillmann) : variant of Gille 2.
Boy/Male
Scottish
Christ bearer.
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English
English : variant of Gillett 1.
Male
French
French name derived from Late Latin Ægidius, GILLES means "shield of goatskin."
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English
English : variant spelling of Gillett.French : from a pet form of the personal name Giles 1.
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Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.