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The gilboy Surname

gilboy Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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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Distribution of gilboy Families in the US in 1920
Number of gilboy families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 15 - Messages: 34
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Martin Gilboy lkinship 0
Pacific Gilboy PatriciaMarkMoors 0
Wisconsin Gilboy Family jgilboy1 3
Gilboy family Terrence R.Gilboy 4
Michael Gilboy of Scranton, Pa. nancy gilboy wyman 2
gilboy leitrim ireland isabel smart 0
Gilboy surname - Illinois/Ireland lindajordan1 4
Daniel Gilboy Obit-2004-Pa. S_Ihrman 0
Gilboy and Igoe / Igo / Iago of Oakham, MA and Ireland jhealy_1 0
GILBOY gilboy_1 0
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