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gillenwater Name Meaning and History

Altered spelling of the English surname Gillingwater, which Reaney suggests is probably a topographic name from Old English gylden ‘yellow’ + wæter ‘water’, ‘stream’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gillenwater Families in the US in 1920
Number of gillenwater families
 26-50
 9-25
 1-8
 0
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