The gilboy Surname
gilboy Name Meaning and History
- reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Giolla Bhuidhe ‘descendant of the yellow-haired (buidhe) servant’. This is a Connacht surname, sometimes replaced with Scottish Ogilvie.
- adoption of the English habitational name Gilby, from a place in Lincolnshire, so named from the Old Norse personal name Gilli, which is abstracted from the various Irish personal names containing Gaelic giolla ‘servant’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Michael Gilboy of Scranton, Pa. | nancy gilboy wyman | 4 |
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| gilboy leitrim ireland | isabel smart | 0 |
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| Gilboy and Igoe / Igo / Iago of Oakham, MA and Ireland |
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