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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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