The gillette Surname

gillette Name Meaning and History

English: from a feminine form of Gillett 1.
French: variant spelling of Gillet.

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The gillette name in History

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gillette Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of gillette Families in the US in 1920

Number of gillette families

164-325

55-163

1-54

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Thread	Author	Replies
Corintha Gillette m Elon Smith, 1832, NY	chrisw_99	10
FOUND PAPERS ON GILLETTE	SHERYL	6
Erastus Gillette	Virginia Giguere	3
Gillette Razor Company 1919 Letter	CallMeBee	0
John Gillette	gods_losttear	0
Garland Gillette	bruce bynes	1
James Gillette Civil War Prisoner	dsegelquist	5
Parents of Albert Gillette and Birdie Gibson, Syracuse,NY	ejgilligan	0
Gillette family	Trudy Moran	31
African American Gillette	glarina	0

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